The only child: a quiet house, sentence 24
In Brooklyn, Desmond comes home with a key on a lanyard, microwaves pasta and does homework at the counter; his mom texts «u good?» and he sends a thumbs-up.
Who acts: Desmond, mom · What happens: come, microwave, do, text, send · To what, where: Brooklyn, pasta, homework, counter, thumbs up
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 (Desmond, mom), 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 Brooklyn | case |
| 2 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brooklyn | punct |
| 4 | Desmond | Desmond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 microwaves | advcl |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 comes | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 key | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 key | det |
| 9 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 lanyard | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lanyard | det |
| 12 | lanyard | lanyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 key | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 microwaves | punct |
| 14 | microwaves | microwave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 microwaves | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 does | cc |
| 17 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 microwaves | conj |
| 18 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 does | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 counter | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 counter | det |
| 21 | counter | counter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 does | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 texts | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 texts | nsubj |
| 25 | texts | text | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 microwaves | conj |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 good | punct |
| 27 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 good | nsubj |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 texts | ccomp |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 good | punct |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 28 good | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sends | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sends | nsubj |
| 33 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 microwaves | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 up | det |
| 35 | thumbs | thumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 up | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 thumbs | punct |
| 37 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sends | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Desmond | Brooklyn | with a key on a lanyard; home property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brooklyn=Location | |||
| 2 | microwave | present | pasta | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pasta=Patient | |||||
| 3 | do | present | homework | the counter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | text | present | Desmond's mom | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | send | present | Desmond | a thumbs up | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Theme |
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:24.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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