The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 20
In Croydon, Ollie-Ray's school trousers were his brother's and are a bit long.
Who acts: school trousers · What happens: be · To what, where: Croydon
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 (school trousers), 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 Croydon | case |
| 2 | Croydon | Croydon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 long | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Croydon | punct |
| 4 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ray | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ollie | punct |
| 6 | Ray | Ray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 trousers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Ray | case |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trousers | compound |
| 9 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 long | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brother | cop |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 long | conj |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 brother | case |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 long | cc |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 long | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bit | det |
| 17 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 long | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ollie Ray's school trousers not said here | 's Ray's brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Ollie Ray's school trousers | Croydon | a bit obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules |
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:20.
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): no change. 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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