Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 13
In Sydney, Ethan-Jay's grandparents post Cadbury chocolate and Marmite from England; his mates go, «Ew, Marmite?», and he eats it anyway.
Who acts: grandparents, mates, Pooja · What happens: post, go, eat · To what, where: Cadbury chocolate, Sydney, Marmite
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 (grandparents, mates, Pooja), 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 Sydney | case |
| 2 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 post | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ethan | punct |
| 4 | Ethan | Ethan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Jay | flat |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jay | punct |
| 6 | Jay | Jay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 grandparents | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Jay | case |
| 8 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 post | nsubj |
| 9 | post | post | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Cadbury | Cadbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 chocolate | compound |
| 11 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 post | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Marmite | cc |
| 13 | Marmite | marmite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chocolate | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 England | case |
| 15 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Marmite | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 post | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mates | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 go | nsubj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 post | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ew | punct |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ew | punct |
| 22 | Ew | ew | INTJ | Number=Sing | 19 go | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Marmite | punct |
| 24 | Marmite | marmite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Ew | conj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 eats | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 eats | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 eats | nsubj |
| 30 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 eats | obj |
| 32 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 30 eats | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 post | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | post | present | Ethan Jay's grandparents | Cadbury chocolate and Marmite from England | Sydney | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | present | England's mates | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | eat | present | Pooja | Marmite | anyway property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:13.
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, R6-punct-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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