Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 5
His mum filmed the whole race, and Dad watches it three times that night: «Proper rapid, son!» At Cody's school there's a club for forces kids, where everybody knows what an empty spot feels like.
Who acts: mum, Dad, club, everybody, empty spot · What happens: film, watch, be, know, feel · To what, where: whole race, race, school · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mum, Dad, club, everybody), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filmed | nsubj |
| 3 | filmed | film | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 race | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 race | amod |
| 6 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filmed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 watches | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 watches | cc |
| 9 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watches | nsubj |
| 10 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 filmed | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 watches | obj |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 watches | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | that | that | DET | PronType=Dem | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watches | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 son | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 rapid | punct |
| 18 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rapid | amod |
| 19 | rapid | rapid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 son | compound |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rapid | punct |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watches | conj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 watches | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 's | punct |
| 24 | At | at | ADP | _ | 27 school | case |
| 25 | Cody | Cody | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 school | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Cody | case |
| 27 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 's | obl |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 's | expl |
| 29 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 watches | parataxis |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 club | det |
| 31 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 's | nsubj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 kids | case |
| 33 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 kids | compound |
| 34 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 club | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 knows | punct |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 knows | advmod |
| 37 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 38 knows | nsubj |
| 38 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 club | acl:relcl |
| 39 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 feels | obj |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 spot | det |
| 41 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 spot | amod |
| 42 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 feels | nsubj |
| 43 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 knows | ccomp |
| 44 | like | like | ADV | _ | 43 feels | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filmed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | film | past | Cody's mum | the whole race | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | present | Dad | race | night; time | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | be | present | a club for forces kids | Cody's school; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at school=Location | ||||
| 4 | know | present | everybody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | feel | present | a empty spot | like property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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: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): R5-strong ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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