Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings, sentence 4
A boy in Ohio cannot finish his Lego spaceship; he has a drink, looks at the instructions again, spots a missing piece on page 12, and the ship holds together at last.
Who acts: boy, ship · What happens: not finish, have, look, spot, hold together · To what, where: Lego spaceship, drink, missing piece, page, last
This is a sentence of the lesson «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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, ship), 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 finish | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 finish | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 finish | advmod |
| 7 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 spaceship | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Lego | Lego | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 spaceship | compound |
| 10 | spaceship | spaceship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finish | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 finish | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 drink | det |
| 15 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looks | punct |
| 17 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 has | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 instructions | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 instructions | det |
| 20 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 looks | obl |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 looks | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spots | punct |
| 23 | spots | spot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 finish | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 piece | det |
| 25 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 piece | amod |
| 26 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spots | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 page | case |
| 28 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spots | obl |
| 29 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 page | flat |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 holds | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 has | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ship | det |
| 33 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 holds | nsubj |
| 34 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 finish | conj |
| 35 | together | together | ADV | _ | 34 holds | advmod |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 last | case |
| 37 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 holds | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 finish | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not finish | can | a boy in Ohio | boy's Lego spaceship | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector spaceship=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | present | boy | a drink | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | present | boy not said here | again | at the instructions | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at instruction=Theme | |||
| 4 | spot | present | a boy in Ohio not said here | a missing piece | page | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme piece=Destination | |||
| 5 | hold together | present | the ship | last | together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=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:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.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): R5-strong ×2. 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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