The only child: a quiet house, sentence 9
In Aberdeen, Nell has invented two brothers, Rab and Tam, who get blamed for every mess.
Who acts: Nell · What happens: invent, blame · To what, where: two brothers, Aberdeen
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 (Nell), 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 Aberdeen | case |
| 2 | Aberdeen | Aberdeen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 invented | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Aberdeen | punct |
| 4 | Nell | Nell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 invented | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 invented | aux |
| 6 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 brothers | nummod |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 invented | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Rab | punct |
| 10 | Rab | Rab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brothers | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Tam | cc |
| 12 | Tam | Tam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rab | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blamed | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 blamed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 blamed | aux:pass |
| 16 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 mess | case |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 mess | det |
| 19 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blamed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 invented | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | present · perfect | Nell | two brothers | Aberdeen | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Result | |||
| 2 | blame | present · passive | two brothers | for every mess | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for mess=Attribute |
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: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. 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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