Strangers and tricky people, sentence 6
A man at a park in Ohio told a girl he had lost his puppy and asked her to help look in his van; she said no, ran to her mum, and the police were called.
Who acts: man, puppy · What happens: tell, lose, ask, help, look, say · To what, where: girl, puppy, police · 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 (man, puppy), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 park | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 park | det |
| 5 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Ohio | case |
| 7 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 park | nmod |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lost | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 told | ccomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 puppy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 help | mark |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asked | xcomp |
| 21 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 help | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 van | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 van | nmod:poss |
| 24 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 look | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | parataxis |
| 28 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 ran | discourse |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ran | punct |
| 30 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 mum | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mum | nmod:poss |
| 33 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ran | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 called | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 called | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 police | det |
| 37 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 called | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 called | aux:pass |
| 39 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 said | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | a man at a park in Ohio | a girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect | man | man's puppy | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | a man at a park in Ohio not said here | puppy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | a man at a park in Ohio not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look not said to happen | infinitive | a man at a park in Ohio not said here | in man's van | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in van=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | puppy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | run | past | puppy not said here | to puppy's mum result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mum=Result | ||||
| 8 | call | past · passive | the police | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:6.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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