Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 10
In Toronto, Sophie-Grace's gran rings from Scotland: «Ye're lookin' braw, hen!» «Huh?» («braw» is lovely, «hen» is dear.) Trying matters more than getting it right.
Who acts: Ye, braw », « hen » · What happens: look, be, try, get · To what, where: braw, »
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 (Ye, braw », « hen »), 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 Toronto | case |
| 2 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rings | punct |
| 4 | Sophie | Sophie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Grace | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sophie | punct |
| 6 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gran | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Grace | case |
| 8 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | nsubj |
| 9 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Scotland | case |
| 11 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 lookin | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 lookin | punct |
| 14 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 lookin | nsubj |
| 15 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lookin | aux |
| 16 | lookin | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 braw | acl |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 lookin | punct |
| 18 | braw | braw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hen | punct |
| 20 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 braw | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Toronto | punct |
| 22 | » | » | X | _ | 42 matters | compound |
| 23 | « | « | X | _ | 22 » | goeswith |
| 24 | Huh | huh | INTJ | _ | 22 » | discourse |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 » | punct |
| 26 | » | » | X | _ | 22 » | goeswith |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 lovely | punct |
| 28 | « | « | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 » | det |
| 29 | braw | braw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 » | amod |
| 30 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lovely | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 lovely | cop |
| 32 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 » | goeswith |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 dear | punct |
| 34 | « | « | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 » | amod |
| 35 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 » | compound |
| 36 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dear | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 dear | cop |
| 38 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 lovely | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 » | punct |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 » | punct |
| 41 | Trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 matters | amod |
| 42 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 more | nsubj |
| 43 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 rings | parataxis |
| 44 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 45 getting | mark |
| 45 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 more | advcl |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 getting | obj |
| 47 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 getting | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 more | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present · progressive | Ye | braw and hen not said here | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme braw=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | present | « braw » | lovely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | « hen » | dear property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | try | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | get | gerund | » | right property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:10.
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): R7-rel-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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