A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents, sentence 18
A girl in Glasgow gave her baby brother a small piece of hard sweet because he was crying; he started to choke, and her mum had to give firm slaps between his shoulders, called back blows, to clear it.
Who acts: girl, dad, mum, firm slaps · What happens: give, cry, start, choke, have, call back · To what, where: small piece, baby brother, firm slaps, blows, piece
This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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, dad, mum, firm slaps), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Glasgow | case |
| 4 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brother | compound |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 piece | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 piece | amod |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sweet | case |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sweet | amod |
| 14 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 piece | nmod |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 crying | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 crying | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 crying | aux |
| 18 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gave | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 started | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 started | nsubj |
| 21 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 choke | mark |
| 23 | choke | choke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 started | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 had | cc |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mum | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 give | mark |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 had | xcomp |
| 31 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 slaps | amod |
| 32 | slaps | slap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 give | obj |
| 33 | between | between | ADP | _ | 35 shoulders | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 35 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 slaps | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 called | punct |
| 37 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 slaps | acl |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 called | advmod |
| 39 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 called | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 clear | punct |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 clear | mark |
| 42 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 give | advcl |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 clear | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a girl in Glasgow | a small piece of hard sweet | girl's baby brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past · progressive | dad | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | start | past | dad | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | choke | to-infinitive | dad not said here | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | have | past | girl's mum | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | give | to-infinitive | girl's mum not said here | firm slaps | between dad's shoulders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slap=Theme | |||
| 7 | call back speech: assert | participle | firm slaps not said here | blows | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent blow=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | clear | to-infinitive | girl's mum not said here | piece | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source |
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:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.lesson:18.
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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