The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 15
Mam: «We haven't got a cat.» Both girls burst out laughing and own up.
Who acts: We, girls · What happens: not get, burst out, laugh, own up · To what, where: cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 (We, girls), 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 | Mam | mam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burst | dep |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 4 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 got | advmod |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 burst | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 12 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 girls | det |
| 13 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 burst | nsubj |
| 14 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 burst | compound:prt |
| 16 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 burst | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 own | cc |
| 18 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 laughing | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 own | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | present · perfect | We | a cat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | burst out | past | both girls | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | both girls not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | own up | present | both girls not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:15.
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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