Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 12

When Liam asks who made the first coin, his Geordie gran says «ask Google, pet»: pet is how people in north-east England say love or dear.

Who acts: Liam, Geordie gran, people · What happens: ask, make, say, be · To what, where: first coin, pet, Google · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» of the history 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 (Liam, Geordie gran, people), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 asks	advmod
2	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 says	advcl
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asks	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coin	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 coin	amod
8	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 gran	nmod:poss
11	Geordie	geordie	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gran	compound
12	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 ask	punct
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 says	ccomp
16	Google	Google	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ask	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ask	punct
18	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ask	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 ask	punct
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 pet	punct
21	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	parataxis
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 say	cop
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 say	advmod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 say	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 England	case
26	north	north	ADV	_	28 east	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 north	punct
28	east	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 England	compound
29	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 people	nmod
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ask	parataxis
31	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 say	obj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 dear	cc
33	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 love	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Liam				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past		the first coin			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Product
3	say speech: assert	present	Liam's Geordie gran				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive		pet	Google		tree rules
5	is	present	people in east England			say property	tree rules

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:history:063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.lesson:12.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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