The big language quiz, sentence 1
Think of it as a family quiz night: Grandad shouts the questions from the kitchen, everybody grabs a pencil, and every answer can be checked, letter by letter or rule by rule.
Who acts: you, Grandad, everybody, letter, rule · What happens: think, shout, grab, check, letter · To what, where: questions, kitchen, pencil, answer
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» of the language 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 (you, Grandad, everybody, letter), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Think | obl |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 night | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quiz | compound |
| 7 | quiz | quiz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 night | compound |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 shouts | punct |
| 10 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 shouts | nsubj |
| 11 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 questions | det |
| 13 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shouts | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 kitchen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 kitchen | det |
| 16 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shouts | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grabs | punct |
| 18 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 grabs | nsubj |
| 19 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shouts | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pencil | det |
| 21 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grabs | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 checked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 checked | cc |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 answer | det |
| 25 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 checked | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 checked | aux:pass |
| 28 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 shouts | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 letter | punct |
| 30 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 checked | obl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 letter | case |
| 32 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 letter | nmod |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 rule | cc |
| 34 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 letter | conj |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 rule | case |
| 36 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 letter | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | night | of quiz | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | Grandad | the questions | the kitchen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic | |||
| 3 | grab | present | everybody | a pencil | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme | ||||
| 4 | check | can · passive | every answer | letter by letter by rule or rule obl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | letter | letter by rule or rule | nom letter «communication transitive»: by=agent | ||||||
| 6 | letter | rule | nom letter «communication transitive»: by=agent |
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:language:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:1.
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, R8-pos-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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