The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 28
In Wigan, Jodie, 16, buys Hollie a hot chocolate every Saturday with her part-time job money, until one week: «Can't, I'm skint» (no money).
Who acts: Jodie, Bea · What happens: buy, be · To what, where: hot chocolate, Hollie, Wigan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» 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 (Jodie, Bea), 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 Wigan | case |
| 2 | Wigan | Wigan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 buys | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Jodie | punct |
| 4 | Jodie | Jodie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 buys | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 16 | punct |
| 6 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Jodie | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 16 | punct |
| 8 | buys | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Hollie | Hollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 buys | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 chocolate | det |
| 11 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chocolate | amod |
| 12 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buys | obj |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 Saturday | det |
| 14 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 buys | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 money | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 money | nmod:poss |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 part | punct |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 job | compound |
| 20 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 money | compound |
| 21 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buys | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 week | punct |
| 23 | until | until | ADP | _ | 25 week | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 week | nummod |
| 25 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buys | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 buys | punct |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 Ca | punct |
| 28 | Ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 skint | aux |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 Ca | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 skint | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 skint | nsubj |
| 32 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 skint | cop |
| 33 | skint | skint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 buys | parataxis |
| 34 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 33 skint | punct |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 money | punct |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 money | det |
| 37 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 skint | appos |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 money | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 buys | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | present | Jodie | a hot chocolate | Hollie | Wigan | saturday; week | with Jodie's job money | tree rules |
| 2 | is in a quote | can | Bea | skint 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:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:28.
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 ×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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