A new baby, sentence 3
«She's well boring, she just cries and poos,» he says.
Who acts: baby, Ellis · What happens: be, cry, poo, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby» 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 (baby, Ellis), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 cries | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boring | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 boring | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 boring | advmod |
| 5 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cries | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 boring | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cries | nsubj |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 cries | advmod |
| 9 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 says | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 poos | cc |
| 11 | poos | poo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cries | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 says | nsubj |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | baby | boring, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | present | baby | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | poo in a quote | present | baby not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Ellis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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:504-a-new-baby.lesson:3.
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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