The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 30

In Bradford, with Mum in hospital for a week, Aziza, 17, cooks, does Maryam's plaits, checks homework, and cries quietly in the bathroom at night.

Who acts: Aziza · What happens: cook, do, check, cry · To what, where: plaits, homework, bathroom

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 (Aziza), 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 Bradford	case
2	Bradford	Bradford	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cooks	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Mum	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 Mum	case
5	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bradford	appos
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 hospital	case
7	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Mum	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 week	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hospital	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Aziza	punct
12	Aziza	Aziza	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cooks	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 17	punct
14	17	17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Bradford	list
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cooks	punct
16	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 does	punct
18	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cooks	conj
19	Maryam	Maryam	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 plaits	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Maryam	case
21	plaits	plait	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 does	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 checks	punct
23	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 does	conj
24	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 checks	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cries	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cries	cc
27	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 does	conj
28	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	27 cries	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 bathroom	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bathroom	det
31	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cries	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 night	case
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cries	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 cooks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present	Aziza				in Bradford	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent in bradford=Instrument
2	do	present	Aziza not said here	Maryam's plaits				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plait=Eventuality
3	check	present	Aziza not said here	homework				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Theme
4	cry speech: express	present	Aziza not said here		the bathroom	night	quietly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bathroom=Location

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:30.

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 ×4, 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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