Eyes, ears and moving your body, sentence 17
A girl in Ontario could not see the board for months but did not say; her marks dropped, and when she finally got glasses she said everything looked sharp for the first time.
Who acts: girl, marks, everything · What happens: not see, not say, drop, get, say, look · To what, where: board, glasses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, ears and moving your body» 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 (girl, marks, everything), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ontario | case |
| 4 | Ontario | Ontario | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 board | det |
| 9 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 months | case |
| 11 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obl |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 say | cc |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 say | advmod |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 dropped | punct |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 marks | nmod:poss |
| 18 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dropped | nsubj |
| 19 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 got | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 got | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 got | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 got | nsubj |
| 24 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 25 got | advmod |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dropped | conj |
| 26 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 got | obj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 said | nsubj |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 got | parataxis |
| 29 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 30 looked | nsubj |
| 30 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | ccomp |
| 31 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 looked | xcomp |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 time | det |
| 34 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 time | amod |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looked | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | could | a girl in Ontario | the board | month | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer board=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | a girl in Ontario not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | drop | past | girl's marks | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | past | girl | glasses | finally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | look | past | everything | time | sharp property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | mark | girl | nom mark «cognition 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:087-eyes-ears-and-moving.lesson:17.
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 ×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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