The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad, sentence 8
In Bristol, Nan says, «Children should be seen and not heard.» Delphine: «That's well old school, Nan.» Nan laughs: «It is, my lover.
Who acts: Nan, That · What happens: say, see, not hear, be, laugh · To what, where: Bristol, Children, old school, lover · 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 (Nan, That), 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 Bristol | case |
| 2 | Bristol | Bristol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bristol | punct |
| 4 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | _ | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Children | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 Children | punct |
| 8 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 says | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heard | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 heard | advmod |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seen | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 Delphine | punct |
| 17 | Delphine | Delphine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 Nan | punct |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 school | punct |
| 20 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 school | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 school | cop |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 old | advmod |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 school | amod |
| 24 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Nan | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 school | punct |
| 26 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 laughs | punct |
| 29 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 laughs | nsubj |
| 30 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | parataxis |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 lover | punct |
| 32 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 37 lover | punct |
| 33 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 is | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 lover | cop |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 is | punct |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 lover | nmod:poss |
| 37 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Nan | Bristol | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | should · passive | Children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not hear in a quote | participle | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | That | old school | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | laugh | present | Nan | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | Nan not said here | my lover | 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:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.lesson:8.
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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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