Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 8
«I'd rather have him than presents,» Jaya mutters.
Who acts: Jaya · What happens: have, mutter · To what, where: dad · 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 (Jaya), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 mutters | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 presents | case |
| 8 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 11 | Jaya | Jaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mutters | nsubj |
| 12 | mutters | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 mutters | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | would | Jaya | dad | than presents | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | mutter speech: assert | present | Jaya | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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