Strangers and tricky people, sentence 7
A boy in Leeds was offered sweets and a lift home by a woman he did not know; he got in, and his parents were frightened when he arrived home in a stranger's car, even though he was safe this time.
Who acts: woman, boy · What happens: offer, not know, get in, frighten, arrive, be · To what, where: boy, woman, parents, car
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 (woman, boy), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 offered | aux:pass |
| 6 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 offered | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lift | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lift | det |
| 10 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sweets | conj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 offered | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 woman | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offered | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 know | advmod |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 woman | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 offered | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 got | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 frightened | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 frightened | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 parents | nmod:poss |
| 26 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 frightened | aux:pass |
| 28 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 offered | conj |
| 29 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 31 arrived | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 arrived | nsubj |
| 31 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 frightened | advcl |
| 32 | home | home | ADV | _ | 31 arrived | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 car | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 stranger | det |
| 35 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 car | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 stranger | case |
| 37 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 arrived | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 safe | punct |
| 39 | even | even | ADV | _ | 43 safe | advmod |
| 40 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 43 safe | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 safe | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 safe | cop |
| 43 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 frightened | advcl |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 time | det |
| 45 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 safe | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past · passive | a woman | a boy in Leeds | home property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal sweet=Theme | |||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | boy | a woman not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get in | past | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | frighten | past · passive | boy's parents | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | arrive | past | boy | a stranger's car | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | past | boy | time | safe property | tree rules |
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:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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