Solving disagreements calmly, sentence 4
Two brothers in Melbourne both want the TV; after cooling down, they agree that one watches his show now and the other picks the film after dinner, and nobody has to cry.
Who acts: Two brothers, brothers, one, other, nobody, Melbourne · What happens: want, cool down, agree, watch, pick, have · To what, where: TV, show, film · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Solving disagreements calmly» 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 (Two brothers, brothers, one, other), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 brothers | nummod |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 want | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Melbourne | case |
| 4 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | _ | 2 brothers | nmod |
| 5 | both | both | ADV | _ | 6 want | advmod |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 TV | det |
| 8 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 want | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 cooling | mark |
| 11 | cooling | cool | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 agree | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 cooling | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 agree | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 agree | nsubj |
| 15 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 want | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 watches | mark |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 watches | nsubj |
| 18 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 agree | ccomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 show | nmod:poss |
| 20 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 watches | obj |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 watches | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 picks | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 picks | nsubj |
| 25 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 watches | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 film | det |
| 27 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 picks | obj |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 dinner | case |
| 29 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 picks | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 has | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 has | cc |
| 32 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 33 has | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 agree | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 cry | mark |
| 35 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 has | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Two brothers in Melbourne | the TV | both property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tv=Theme | |||
| 2 | cool down | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | present | brothers = brother | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | watch | present | one | Melbourne's show | now | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Theme | |||
| 5 | pick | present | the other | the film | after dinner | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Patient | |||
| 6 | have | present | nobody | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | show | Melbourne | nom show «act transitive»: poss=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:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.lesson:4.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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