Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 5
In Edinburgh, Grandad tells Torquil the same story about the ferry three times in one visit.
Who acts: Grandad · What happens: tell · To what, where: same story, Torquil, Edinburgh · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» 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 (Grandad), 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 Edinburgh | case |
| 2 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tells | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Edinburgh | punct |
| 4 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tells | nsubj |
| 5 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Torquil | Torquil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tells | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 story | amod |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tells | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 ferry | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ferry | det |
| 12 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 story | nmod |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 times | nummod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tells | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 visit | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 visit | nummod |
| 17 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tells | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Grandad | the same story | Torquil | Edinburgh | time | about the ferry; in one visit | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent torquil=Recipient story=Topic |
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:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:5.
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 ×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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