Eyes, ears and moving your body, sentence 3

A boy in Bristol could not read the board, so he told his teacher; an eye test showed he needed glasses, and now his maths is much easier.

Who acts: boy, eye test, test, maths · What happens: not read, tell, show, need, be · To what, where: board, teacher, 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 (boy, eye test, test, maths), 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	7 read	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Bristol	case
4	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 read	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 read	advmod
7	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 board	det
9	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 read	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 told	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 read	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 teacher	nmod:poss
15	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	iobj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 showed	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 test	det
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 test	compound
19	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 showed	nsubj
20	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 read	conj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 needed	nsubj
22	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 showed	ccomp
23	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 needed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 easier	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 easier	cc
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 easier	advmod
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 maths	nmod:poss
28	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 easier	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 easier	cop
30	much	much	ADV	_	31 easier	advmod
31	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 showed	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 read	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not read	could	a boy in Bristol	the board				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past	boy		boy's teacher			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
3	show	past	a eye test					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	need	past	test	glasses				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme
5	is	present	boy's maths			now	easy 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:087-eyes-ears-and-moving.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): R3-conj-first ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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