Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 9
In Hull, Angus's dad stays in bed for days with the curtains shut: «Sorry, mate, just tired.» In Brisbane, Rafferty's mum stays in her room, so every arvo (afternoon) and evening he makes toast for himself and his little sister.
Who acts: dad, curtains, mum, mate · What happens: stay, shut, make · To what, where: Hull, Brisbane, toast
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dad, curtains, mum, mate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Hull | case |
| 2 | Hull | Hull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stays | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hull | punct |
| 4 | Angus | Angus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dad | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Angus | case |
| 6 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stays | nsubj |
| 7 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stays | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stays | obl |
| 12 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 shut | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 curtains | det |
| 14 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shut | nsubj |
| 15 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 stays | advcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 tired | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sorry | punct |
| 18 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 23 tired | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sorry | punct |
| 20 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tired | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tired | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 tired | advmod |
| 23 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stays | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 tired | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 Brisbane | punct |
| 26 | In | in | ADP | _ | 27 Brisbane | case |
| 27 | Brisbane | Brisbane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 stays | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stays | punct |
| 29 | Rafferty | Rafferty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 mum | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Rafferty | case |
| 31 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stays | nsubj |
| 32 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stays | parataxis |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 room | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 room | nmod:poss |
| 35 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stays | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 arvo | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 arvo | advmod |
| 38 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 arvo | det |
| 39 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Brisbane | appos |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 afternoon | punct |
| 41 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 arvo | appos |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 afternoon | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 evening | cc |
| 44 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 arvo | conj |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 makes | nsubj |
| 46 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 arvo | acl:relcl |
| 47 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 makes | obj |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 himself | case |
| 49 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 46 makes | obl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 sister | cc |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 sister | nmod:poss |
| 52 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 sister | amod |
| 53 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 himself | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stays | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | Angus's dad | Hull | day | in bed | tree rules | ||
| 2 | shut | participle | the curtains | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | stay | present | Rafferty's mum | Brisbane | in mum's room | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brisbane=Location | |||
| 4 | make | present | mate | toast | for mate | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent toast=Material for himself=Beneficiary |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:9.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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