The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 27

In Sheffield it goes the other way: Becca's sister turns 13, calls Becca «so cringe» and stops letting her in her room.

Who acts: toast, sister · What happens: go, turn, call, stop, let · To what, where: other way, Sheffield, 13, Becca, room · 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 (toast, sister), 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 Sheffield	case
2	Sheffield	Sheffield	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 goes	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 turns	punct
9	Becca	Becca	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sister	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Becca	case
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turns	nsubj
12	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 goes	parataxis
13	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 turns	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 calls	punct
15	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 turns	conj
16	Becca	Becca	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 calls	obj
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 cringe	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 cringe	advmod
19	cringe	cringe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 calls	xcomp
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 cringe	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stops	cc
22	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 turns	conj
23	letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 stops	xcomp
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 letting	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 room	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 room	nmod:poss
27	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 letting	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	toast	the other way		Sheffield		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sheffield=Location
2	turn	present	Becca's sister	13				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 13=Theme
3	call	present	Becca's sister not said here		Becca		cringe property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent becca=Recipient
4	stop	present	Becca's sister not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	let	gerund	Becca's sister not said here	Becca		sister's room		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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:27.

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, 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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