Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, sentence 8

Hamish in Aberdeen tells his wee sister: «Dinnae just say what happened, say why, ken» (dinnae means don't, wee means little).

Who acts: Hamish, dinnae, wee · What happens: tell, not say, happen, say, ken, mean · To what, where: wee sister, little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» 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 (Hamish, dinnae, wee), 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	Hamish	Hamish	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Aberdeen	case
3	Aberdeen	Aberdeen	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hamish	nmod
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sister	nmod:poss
6	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sister	amod
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	Dinnae	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 say	advmod
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tells	ccomp
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 happened	nsubj
14	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 say	parataxis
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 say	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ken	punct
19	ken	ken	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 say	parataxis
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 ken	punct
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 means	punct
22	dinnae	dinnae	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	23 means	nsubj
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tells	parataxis
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 means	aux
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 do	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 n't	punct
27	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 means	nsubj
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 means	conj
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 means	obj
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 means	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Hamish in Aberdeen		Hamish's wee sister	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen in a quote	past				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	ken in a quote	infinitive				tree rules
6	mean	present	dinnae			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	mean	present · do-support	wee	little		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic

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:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.lesson:8.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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