Boredom, excitement and pride, sentence 7
Games like I spy, counting number plates and audiobooks make a long car journey pass faster.
Who acts: I, Games, long car journey · What happens: spy, count, make, pass · To what, where: Games, number plates, long car journey
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 (I, Games, long car journey), 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 | Games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 4 spy | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 spy | nsubj |
| 4 | spy | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Games | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 counting | punct |
| 6 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Games | conj |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plates | compound |
| 8 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 counting | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 audiobooks | cc |
| 10 | audiobooks | audiobook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 plates | conj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 journey | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 journey | amod |
| 14 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 journey | compound |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 16 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | xcomp |
| 17 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 pass | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spy | present | I | Games not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer game=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | count | gerund | Games not said here | number plates and audiobooks | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | present | Games | a long car journey | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pass | infinitive | a long car journey not said here | fast property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: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): R1-cc-next ×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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