The big language quiz, sentence 11

A comma can save Grandma: "Let's eat, Grandma" talks to Grandma; "Let's eat Grandma" sounds like she is dinner.

Who acts: comma, 's · What happens: save, let, eat, talk, sound, be · To what, where: Grandma, 's, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (comma, 's), 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 comma	det
2	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 save	aux
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Let	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Let	punct
8	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 talks	ccomp
9	's	us	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Let	obj
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Let	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 talks	punct
12	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Let	vocative
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Grandma	punct
14	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 save	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Grandma	case
16	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 talks	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
19	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 sounds	nsubj
20	's	us	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 Let	obj
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Let	xcomp
22	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 eat	obj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
24	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 save	parataxis
25	like	like	SCONJ	_	28 dinner	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dinner	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 dinner	cop
28	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sounds	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 save	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	save	can	a comma	Grandma			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Theme
2	let in a quote	infinitive		's		Grandma vocative	tree rules
3	eat in a quote	infinitive	's not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	talk	present			Grandma		tree rules
5	let in a quote	infinitive		's			tree rules
6	eat in a quote	infinitive	's not said here	Grandma			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Patient
7	sound	present					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	is a	present	comma	dinner			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:language:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:11.

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, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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