Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 7
Ronan is 10 now and knows exactly how the trick works (the coin is hidden in Paddy's hand all along), and he still laughs, because the laugh is for Paddy.
Who acts: Ronan, trick, laugh · What happens: be, know, work, hide, laugh · To what, where: 10, coin, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ronan, trick, laugh), 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 | Ronan | Ronan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 10 | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 10 | cop |
| 3 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 10 | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knows | cc |
| 6 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 10 | conj |
| 7 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 11 works | advmod |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 works | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trick | det |
| 10 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 works | nsubj |
| 11 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 knows | ccomp |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 hidden | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 coin | det |
| 14 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hidden | aux:pass |
| 16 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 works | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 18 | Paddy | Paddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Paddy | case |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hidden | obl |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 along | advmod |
| 22 | along | along | ADV | _ | 16 hidden | advmod |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 hidden | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 laughs | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 laughs | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 laughs | nsubj |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 laughs | advmod |
| 28 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 10 | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Paddy | punct |
| 30 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 Paddy | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 laugh | det |
| 32 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Paddy | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 Paddy | cop |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 Paddy | case |
| 35 | Paddy | Paddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 laughs | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 10 | 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 | is a | present | Ronan | 10 | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present | Ronan not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | work | present | the trick | exactly property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hide | present · passive | the coin | Paddy's hand | along property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in hand=Location | |||
| 5 | laugh | present | Ronan | still | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the laugh | for Paddy | 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:7.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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