Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 0
In Newcastle, Nan turns 70 and there are 40 relatives, a DJ, a buffet with sausage rolls stacked like bricks, and Uncle Gaz doing the Macarena in a shirt two sizes too small.
Who acts: Nan, 40 relatives, Uncle · What happens: turn, be, stack, do · To what, where: 70, sausage rolls, Macarena, shirt
This is a sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» 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 (Nan, 40 relatives, Uncle), 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 Newcastle | case |
| 2 | Newcastle | Newcastle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 turns | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Newcastle | punct |
| 4 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 turns | nsubj |
| 5 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 turns | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 are | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 are | expl |
| 9 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 turns | conj |
| 10 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 relatives | nummod |
| 11 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 are | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 DJ | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 DJ | det |
| 14 | DJ | dj | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 relatives | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 buffet | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 buffet | det |
| 17 | buffet | buffet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 DJ | appos |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 rolls | case |
| 19 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rolls | compound |
| 20 | rolls | roll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 buffet | nmod |
| 21 | stacked | stack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 rolls | acl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 bricks | case |
| 23 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stacked | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Uncle | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Uncle | cc |
| 26 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 relatives | conj |
| 27 | Gaz | Gaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Uncle | appos |
| 28 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 Uncle | acl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Macarena | det |
| 30 | Macarena | macarena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 doing | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 shirt | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 shirt | det |
| 33 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 doing | obl |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 sizes | nummod |
| 35 | sizes | size | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 doing | obj |
| 36 | too | too | ADV | _ | 37 small | advmod |
| 37 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Uncle | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Nan | 70 | in Newcastle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent 70=Patient in newcastle=Topic | |||
| 2 | does | present | 40 relatives and a DJ and Uncle | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stack | participle | sausage rolls not said here | like bricks | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | gerund | Uncle not said here | the Macarena | a shirt | 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:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-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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