Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 1
Baba walks the phone round her garden to show him the tomatoes, then says quietly that the air-raid sirens were loud last night.
Who acts: Baba, raid sirens · What happens: walk, show, say, be · To what, where: phone, garden, tomatoes, Taras · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» 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 (Baba, raid sirens), 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 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 walks | nsubj |
| 2 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 phone | det |
| 4 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walks | obj |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 garden | nmod:poss |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walks | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 show | mark |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 walks | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 show | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tomatoes | det |
| 12 | tomatoes | tomato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 show | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 says | advmod |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 walks | conj |
| 16 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 15 says | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 loud | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sirens | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 raid | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 air | punct |
| 21 | raid | raid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sirens | compound |
| 22 | sirens | siren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 loud | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 loud | cop |
| 24 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 says | ccomp |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 night | amod |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 loud | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | Baba | the phone | Ukraine's garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent phone=Theme round garden=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | Baba not said here | the tomatoes | Taras | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tomato=Topic | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Baba not said here | then | quietly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is | past | the raid sirens | night | loud property | 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:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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