Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 23
They're fixin' to (about to) start chess instead.
Who acts: hoops · What happens: fix, start · To what, where: chess
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» 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 (hoops), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fixin | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fixin | aux |
| 3 | fixin | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fixin | punct |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 start | mark |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 start | punct |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 start | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 about | fixed |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fixin | xcomp |
| 11 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 start | obj |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 10 start | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fixin | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | present · progressive | hoops = hoop | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | start | to-infinitive | hoops = hoop not said here | chess | about, instead property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Eventuality |
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:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:23.
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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