The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 16
In Galway, Darragh sneaks a biscuit and Aoibheann says nothing; next day she sneaks one and he says nothing.
Who acts: Darragh, Aoibheann · What happens: sneak, say · To what, where: biscuit, Galway, nothing, one · 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 (Darragh, Aoibheann), 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 Galway | case |
| 2 | Galway | Galway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sneaks | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Galway | punct |
| 4 | Darragh | Darragh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sneaks | nsubj |
| 5 | sneaks | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 biscuit | det |
| 7 | biscuit | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sneaks | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 says | cc |
| 9 | Aoibheann | Aoibheann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 says | nsubj |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sneaks | conj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 says | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sneaks | punct |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sneaks | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sneaks | nsubj |
| 16 | sneaks | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sneaks | parataxis |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sneaks | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 says | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 says | nsubj |
| 20 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sneaks | conj |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 says | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sneaks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneak | present | Darragh | a biscuit | Galway | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent biscuit=Theme in galway=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Aoibheann | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sneak | present | Aoibheann | one | day | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Agent | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Darragh | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.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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