The only child: a quiet house, sentence 11

Mum plays along: «Tell Rab tae hoover, then.» Imaginary brothers and friends are common and healthy.

Who acts: Mum, Imaginary brothers · What happens: play along, tell, hoover, be · To what, where: Rab · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mum, Imaginary brothers), 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plays	nsubj
2	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	along	along	ADV	_	2 plays	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 plays	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Tell	punct
6	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 plays	parataxis
7	Rab	Rab	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Tell	iobj
8	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	9 hoover	mark
9	hoover	hoover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Tell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 then	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Tell	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 plays	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 plays	punct
14	Imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 brothers	amod
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 common	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 friends	cc
17	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 brothers	conj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 common	cop
19	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 plays	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 healthy	cc
21	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 common	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 plays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	play along	present	Mum			along property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		Rab	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rab=Recipient
3	hoover in a quote	infinitive					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	Imaginary brothers and friends			common property	tree rules
5	be		Imaginary brothers and friends not said here				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:11.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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