Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals, sentence 6
A girl in Glasgow skipped breakfast and lunch to finish a project; by the afternoon she was shaky and could not think, and she fell off her bike on the way home because she felt faint.
Who acts: girl · What happens: skip, finish, be, not think, fall off, feel · To what, where: breakfast, project, bike, way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» 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), 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 | 5 skipped | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Glasgow | case |
| 4 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skipped | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lunch | cc |
| 8 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 breakfast | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 finish | mark |
| 10 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 skipped | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 project | det |
| 12 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finish | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 shaky | punct |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 afternoon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 afternoon | det |
| 16 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shaky | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shaky | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shaky | cop |
| 19 | shaky | shaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skipped | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 think | cc |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 think | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 think | advmod |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 shaky | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fell | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fell | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fell | nsubj |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 skipped | conj |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 bike | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bike | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 way | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 way | det |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 34 | home | home | ADV | _ | 33 way | advmod |
| 35 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 felt | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 felt | nsubj |
| 37 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fell | advcl |
| 38 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 felt | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 skipped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | past | a girl in Glasgow | breakfast and lunch | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Agent | ||||
| 2 | finish | to-infinitive | a girl in Glasgow not said here | a project | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality project=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | girl | afternoon | shaky property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not think speech: other | could | girl not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fall off | past | girl | girl's bike | the way | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient bike=Extent | |||
| 6 | feel | past | girl | faint property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:009-body-signals.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): no change. 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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