Mum on her own, Dad on his own, sentence 17
When kids ask, he says, «Never met him,» and shrugs.
Who acts: kids, Zach · What happens: ask, say, not meet, shrug · To what, where: Zach · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum on her own, Dad on his own» 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 (kids, Zach), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 ask | mark |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 says | nsubj |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
| 9 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 met | advmod |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shrugs | cc |
| 15 | shrugs | shrug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | 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 | ask speech: ask | present | kids | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Zach | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not meet in a quote | past | Zach | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | shrug | present | Zach not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own.lesson:17.
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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