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	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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