Big brothers, sentence 17
In Calgary, Lorcan, 16, stops talking, stays in his room and grunts at dinner.
Who acts: Lorcan · What happens: stop, talk, stay, grunt · To what, where: Calgary, room
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» 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 (Lorcan), 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 Calgary | case |
| 2 | Calgary | Calgary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stops | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lorcan | punct |
| 4 | Lorcan | Lorcan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stops | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 16 | punct |
| 6 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Lorcan | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lorcan | punct |
| 8 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stops | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stays | punct |
| 11 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stops | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 room | nmod:poss |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stays | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grunts | cc |
| 16 | grunts | grunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stays | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 dinner | case |
| 18 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grunts | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Lorcan | Calgary | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | Lorcan not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stay | present | Lorcan not said here | Lorcan's room | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | ||||
| 4 | grunt | present | Lorcan not said here | at dinner | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at dinner=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:501-big-brothers.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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