The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 23
In Melbourne a girl says, «Isn't that your sister's dress?» Coco twirls: «Yeah, it's vintage, babe.» Everyone laughs, with her.
Who acts: girl, that, Coco, dress, Everyone · What happens: say, not be, twirl, be, laugh · To what, where: Melbourne, dress, vintage · 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 (girl, that, Coco, dress), 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 Melbourne | case |
| 2 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 8 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 dress | cop |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 dress | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 dress | nsubj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dress | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 sister | case |
| 14 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 dress | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 dress | punct |
| 17 | Coco | Coco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 twirls | nsubj |
| 18 | twirls | twirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 twirls | punct |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 twirls | punct |
| 21 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 25 vintage | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 vintage | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 vintage | nsubj |
| 24 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 vintage | cop |
| 25 | vintage | vintage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 twirls | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 babe | punct |
| 27 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 vintage | vocative |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 vintage | punct |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 twirls | punct |
| 30 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 laughs | nsubj |
| 31 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 laughs | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 laughs | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 laughs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | a girl | Melbourne | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in melbourne=Manner | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | that | your sister's dress | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | twirl | present | Coco | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | dress | vintage | babe vocative | tree rules | |||
| 5 | laugh | present | Everyone | with Coco | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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:23.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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