Strangers and tricky people, sentence 3
Many families choose a secret family password: if someone says «Your mum sent me to pick you up» and does not know the password, you do not go, you tell a trusted adult.
Who acts: Many families, someone, mum, you · What happens: choose, say, send, pick up, not know, not go · To what, where: secret family password, someone, you, password, trusted adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers and tricky people» 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 (Many families, someone, mum, you), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 families | amod |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 choose | nsubj |
| 3 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 password | det |
| 5 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 password | amod |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 password | compound |
| 7 | password | password | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 choose | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 says | mark |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 says | nsubj |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 choose | advcl |
| 12 | « | « | SCONJ | _ | 15 sent | mark |
| 13 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mum | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 says | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sent | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 pick | mark |
| 18 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sent | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 pick | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 pick | compound:prt |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 know | cc |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 know | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 know | advmod |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 says | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 password | det |
| 27 | password | password | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 know | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 go | punct |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 go | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 go | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 go | advmod |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 know | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tell | punct |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 tell | nsubj |
| 35 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 choose | parataxis |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 adult | det |
| 37 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 adult | amod |
| 38 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tell | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present | Many families | a secret family password | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent password=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | send in a quote | past | Your mum | someone | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pick up in a quote | to-infinitive | Your mum not said here | you | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not know | present · do-support | someone not said here | the password | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer password=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not go | present · do-support | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | present | you | a trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:058-strangers-and-tricky-people.lesson:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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