My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 10

«My house has like a hundred rooms» may mean a big house with perhaps five bedrooms; children boast to look interesting, and a visit will show you.

Who acts: house, hundred rooms, children, visit · What happens: have, mean, boast, look, show · To what, where: hundred rooms, big house, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» 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 (house, hundred rooms, children, visit), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 house	nmod:poss
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 rooms	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hundred	det
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 rooms	nummod
8	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 mean	punct
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 mean	aux
11	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 rooms	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 house	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 house	amod
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mean	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 bedrooms	case
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 five	advmod
17	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 bedrooms	nummod
18	bedrooms	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 house	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 boast	punct
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 boast	nsubj
21	boast	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 boast	xcomp
24	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 look	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 show	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 show	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 visit	det
28	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 show	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 show	aux
30	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 boast	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 show	iobj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	My house	hundred rooms			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
2	mean	may	hundred rooms not said here	a big house		with five bedrooms	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic
3	boast speech: other	present	children				vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	to-infinitive	children not said here			interesting property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	show	future	a visit		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:10.

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 ×2, 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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