Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 16
So they try a real handicap instead: Gwil plays football left-footed and gives Wynne a head start in races.
Who acts: shots, Gwil · What happens: try, play, give · To what, where: real handicap, football, head start, Wynne, races
This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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 (shots, Gwil), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 try | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 try | nsubj |
| 3 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 handicap | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 handicap | amod |
| 6 | handicap | handicap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 try | obj |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 3 try | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 plays | punct |
| 9 | Gwil | Gwil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 plays | nsubj |
| 10 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | parataxis |
| 11 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plays | obj |
| 12 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 footed | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 footed | punct |
| 14 | footed | foot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 plays | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gives | cc |
| 16 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 plays | conj |
| 17 | Wynne | Wynne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 gives | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 start | det |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 start | compound |
| 20 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gives | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 races | case |
| 22 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 start | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | shots = shot | a real handicap | instead property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handicap=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | play | present | Gwil | football | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | present | Gwil not said here | a head start | Wynne | races | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wynne=Recipient start=Theme |
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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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