The only child: a quiet house, sentence 1
In Dorset, Esme lets herself in at 3:45 and Dad, a postman, is home at 4.
Who acts: Esme, Dad · What happens: let in, be · To what, where: Esme, Dorset, 4
This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» 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 (Esme, Dad), 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 Dorset | case |
| 2 | Dorset | dorset | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lets | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dorset | punct |
| 4 | Esme | Esme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lets | nsubj |
| 5 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 lets | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 lets | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 3:45 | case |
| 9 | 3:45 | 3:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 lets | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 home | cc |
| 11 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 home | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 postman | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 postman | det |
| 14 | postman | postman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Dad | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 home | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 home | cop |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 lets | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 4 | case |
| 19 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 home | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in | present | Esme | Esme | Dorset | at 3:45 | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at 3:45=Asset | ||
| 2 | is | present | Dad | 4 | home property | tree rules |
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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:1.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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