The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 6
In Atlanta, Marquis gets a car for his 17th birthday; Ezekiel got a cheap bike for his 10th.
Who acts: Marquis, Ezekiel · What happens: get · To what, where: car, Atlanta, cheap bike
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 (Marquis, Ezekiel), 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 Atlanta | case |
| 2 | Atlanta | Atlanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gets | punct |
| 4 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 car | det |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 birthday | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 17th | 17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 11 birthday | amod |
| 11 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 13 | Ezekiel | Ezekiel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gets | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bike | det |
| 16 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bike | amod |
| 17 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 10th | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 10th | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 10th | 10th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 14 got | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Marquis | a car | Atlanta | for Marquis's 17th birthday | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent car=Theme for birthday=Source | ||
| 2 | get | past | Ezekiel | a cheap bike | for Marquis's 10th | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bike=Theme for 10th=Source |
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:6.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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