Boredom, excitement and pride, sentence 4
A girl in Vancouver is bored on a rainy Saturday with no screens; she builds a blanket den, reads a comic inside it, and by lunchtime she has written a story about a dragon who lives in a den.
Who acts: girl, dragon · What happens: bore, build, read, write, live · To what, where: girl, blanket den, comic, story, den
This is a sentence of the lesson «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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, dragon), 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 | 6 bored | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Vancouver | case |
| 4 | Vancouver | Vancouver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bored | aux:pass |
| 6 | bored | bore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Saturday | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Saturday | det |
| 9 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Saturday | amod |
| 10 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bored | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 screens | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 screens | det |
| 13 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bored | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 builds | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 builds | nsubj |
| 16 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bored | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 den | det |
| 18 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 den | compound |
| 19 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 builds | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reads | punct |
| 21 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 builds | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 comic | det |
| 23 | comic | comic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reads | obj |
| 24 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reads | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 written | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 written | cc |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 lunchtime | case |
| 29 | lunchtime | lunchtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 written | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 written | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 written | aux |
| 32 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 reads | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 story | det |
| 34 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 written | obj |
| 35 | about | about | ADP | _ | 37 dragon | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 dragon | det |
| 37 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 story | nmod |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 lives | nsubj |
| 39 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 dragon | acl:relcl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 den | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 den | det |
| 42 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lives | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bored | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bore | present · passive | a girl in Vancouver | saturday | with no screens | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with screen=Instrument | |||
| 2 | build | present | girl | a blanket den | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Product | ||||
| 3 | read | present | girl not said here | a comic | comic | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comic=Topic | |||
| 4 | write | present · perfect | girl | a story | by lunchtime; about a dragon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about dragon=Topic | |||
| 5 | live | present | a dragon | a den | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in den=Location |
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:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.lesson:4.
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): 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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