The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 18
In Ohio, Mason-Tyler breaks the TV remote and his big brother takes the blame, but Mason-Tyler feels so bad that he confesses.
Who acts: Mason Tyler, big brother, Tyler · What happens: break, take, feel, confess · To what, where: TV remote, Ohio, blame
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 (Mason Tyler, big brother, Tyler), 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 Ohio | case |
| 2 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 breaks | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ohio | punct |
| 4 | Mason | Mason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tyler | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mason | punct |
| 6 | Tyler | Tyler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 breaks | nsubj |
| 7 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 remote | det |
| 9 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remote | compound |
| 10 | remote | remote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breaks | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 takes | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brother | amod |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 takes | nsubj |
| 15 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 breaks | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 blame | det |
| 17 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 takes | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 feels | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 feels | cc |
| 20 | Mason | Mason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Tyler | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Mason | punct |
| 22 | Tyler | Tyler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 feels | nsubj |
| 23 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 breaks | conj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 bad | advmod |
| 25 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 feels | xcomp |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 confesses | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 confesses | nsubj |
| 28 | confesses | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 bad | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | Mason Tyler | the TV remote | Ohio | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer remote=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | present | Tyler's big brother | the blame | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | Mason Tyler | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | confess | present | Tyler | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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:18.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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