Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room, sentence 1
Their dad drives a lorry and is often away, and one night Mum puts her head in her hands: «I'm done, I'm proper done with you two.» Brothers and sisters close in age often fight a lot, and it usually gets better.
Who acts: dad, Mum, I, Brothers, head · What happens: drive, be, put, do, close, fight · To what, where: lorry, head, hands, two, lot
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room» 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 (dad, Mum, I, Brothers), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drives | nsubj |
| 3 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lorry | det |
| 5 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drives | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 away | cc |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 away | cop |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 drives | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 puts | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 puts | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 night | nummod |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 puts | obl |
| 14 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 puts | nsubj |
| 15 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drives | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 puts | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hands | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 puts | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 done | punct |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 done | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 done | nsubj |
| 24 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | cop |
| 25 | done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drives | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 done | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 done | nsubj |
| 28 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 29 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 30 done | advmod |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 done | parataxis |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 done | obl |
| 33 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 done | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 done | punct |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 drives | punct |
| 36 | Brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 close | nsubj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 sisters | cc |
| 38 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 Brothers | conj |
| 39 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drives | advcl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 age | case |
| 41 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 close | obl |
| 42 | often | often | ADV | _ | 43 fight | advmod |
| 43 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 close | conj |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 lot | det |
| 45 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fight | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 gets | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 gets | cc |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 gets | nsubj |
| 49 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 50 gets | advmod |
| 50 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drives | conj |
| 51 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 50 gets | xcomp |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | present | Wakefield's dad | a lorry | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lorry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Wakefield's dad not said here | away, often property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | present | Mum | Mum's head | Mum's hands | night | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in hand=Destination | ||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | I | done property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present · passive | I | two | with you; properly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | close | present | Brothers and sisters | in age | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in age=Topic | ||||
| 7 | fight | present | Brothers and sisters not said here | a lot | often property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 8 | get | present | head | good, usually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room.lesson:1.
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 ×1, 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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