Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 2
«Naw, cousins,» says Kenzie, «but same thing.» In Leicester, Arnav's cousin Rohan, 15, is like a big brother: he teaches him cricket, takes him to the shops and helps with his homework.
Who acts: Kenzie, Rohan · What happens: say, be, teach, take, help · To what, where: Leicester, cricket, Arnav, shops · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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 (Kenzie, Rohan), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 2 | Naw | Naw | INTJ | _ | 4 cousins | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cousins | punct |
| 4 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 says | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cousins | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Kenzie | Kenzie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 « | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 thing | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 thing | cc |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cousins | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 16 | In | in | ADP | _ | 17 Leicester | case |
| 17 | Leicester | Leicester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 brother | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Rohan | punct |
| 19 | Arnav | Arnav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Arnav | case |
| 21 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Rohan | appos |
| 22 | Rohan | Rohan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 brother | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 15 | punct |
| 24 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 Rohan | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 brother | punct |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 brother | cop |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 brother | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 brother | det |
| 29 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 brother | amod |
| 30 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | ccomp |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 teaches | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 teaches | nsubj |
| 33 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 brother | parataxis |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 teaches | obj |
| 35 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 teaches | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 takes | punct |
| 37 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 teaches | conj |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 takes | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 shops | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 shops | det |
| 41 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 takes | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 helps | cc |
| 43 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 takes | conj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 homework | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 homework | nmod:poss |
| 46 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 helps | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Kenzie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Rohan | Leicester | like a big brother | tree rules | |||
| 3 | teach speech: other | present | Rohan | cricket | Arnav | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cricket=Topic | |||
| 4 | take | present | Rohan not said here | Arnav | the shops | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to shop=Destination | |||
| 5 | help | present | Rohan not said here | with Rohan's homework | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with homework=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:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:2.
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 ×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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