When a parent has died, sentence 7
At recess a kid brags, «My dad's taking me to the Bears game Sunday!» (the Bears are an American football team.) Darnell goes quiet; his dad used to take him.
Who acts: kid, dad, Bears, Darnell · What happens: brag, take, be, go, use · To what, where: recess, kid, Bears game, American football team, dad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» 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 (kid, dad, Bears, Darnell), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 recess | case |
| 2 | recess | recess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brags | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kid | det |
| 4 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brags | nsubj |
| 5 | brags | brag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taking | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 taking | punct |
| 8 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dad | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 taking | aux |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 brags | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 taking | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 game | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 game | det |
| 15 | Bears | bear | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 game | compound |
| 16 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obl |
| 17 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 brags | punct |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 brags | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 team | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Bears | det |
| 22 | Bears | bear | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 team | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 team | cop |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 team | det |
| 25 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 team | amod |
| 26 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 team | compound |
| 27 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brags | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brags | punct |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 brags | punct |
| 30 | Darnell | Darnell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 goes | nsubj |
| 31 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brags | parataxis |
| 32 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 goes | xcomp |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 used | punct |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 dad | nmod:poss |
| 35 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 used | nsubj |
| 36 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brags | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 take | mark |
| 38 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 used | xcomp |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 take | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brags | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brag speech: other | present | a kid | recess | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present · progressive | My dad | a kid = kid | the Bears game | sunday | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to game=Destination | ||
| 3 | is a | present | the Bears | a American football team | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | present | Darnell | quiet property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | use | past | Darnell's dad | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | Darnell's dad not said here | dad | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:7.
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, R8-pos-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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