The parent who left, and a new partner, sentence 8
Hallie holds the phone and can't think of a single thing to say.
Who acts: Hallie · What happens: hold, not think, say · To what, where: phone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The parent who left, and a new partner» 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 (Hallie), 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 | Hallie | Hallie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 holds | nsubj |
| 2 | holds | hold | 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 holds | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 think | cc |
| 6 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 think | advmod |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 holds | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thing | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 11 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 think | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thing | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | Hallie | the phone | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | can | Hallie not said here | of a single thing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Hallie not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.lesson:8.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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