The only child: a quiet house, sentence 2
For fifteen minutes the house is so quiet she can hear the fridge hum.
Who acts: house, Esme · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: fridge hum
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 (house, Esme), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 minutes | case |
| 2 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 quiet | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quiet | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 quiet | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 quiet | advmod |
| 8 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hear | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hear | aux |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 quiet | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hum | det |
| 13 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hum | compound |
| 14 | hum | hum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the house | minute | quiet property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear | can | Esme | the fridge hum | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hum=Stimulus |
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:2.
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 ×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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