The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad, sentence 24
In Kirkcaldy, Granny takes Islay to the chippy and whispers, «Dinnae tell yer mam we had chips again» (Scots for don't tell your mum).
Who acts: Granny, we, mum · What happens: take, whisper, not tell, have · To what, where: Islay, Kirkcaldy, mam, chips · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» 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 (Granny, we, mum), 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 Kirkcaldy | case |
| 2 | Kirkcaldy | Kirkcaldy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kirkcaldy | punct |
| 4 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | nsubj |
| 5 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Islay | islay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 chippy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chippy | det |
| 9 | chippy | chippy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 whispers | cc |
| 11 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 chippy | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 14 | Dinnae | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 tell | advmod |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 takes | conj |
| 16 | yer | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mam | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mam | mam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | ccomp |
| 20 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | obj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 had | advmod |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 Scots | punct |
| 24 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 tell | parataxis |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 tell | mark |
| 26 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 tell | aux |
| 27 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 tell | advmod |
| 28 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tell | advcl |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mum | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tell | obj |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 takes | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Granny | Islay | Kirkcaldy | to the chippy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent islay=Theme to chippy=Destination | ||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | present | Granny not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Granny not said here | yer's mam | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mam=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | we | chips | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Patient | |||
| 5 | not tell speech: assert | infinitive · do-support | your mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.lesson:24.
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): 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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