My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 11

«I've been to Disneyland like fifty times» might mean twice, and that he loved it; asking about his favourite ride is a friendly reply.

Who acts: children, visit, asking · What happens: be, mean, love, ask, ride · To what, where: house, friendly reply · 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 (children, visit, asking), 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	_	6 Disneyland	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 Disneyland	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Disneyland	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 Disneyland	cop
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Disneyland	case
6	Disneyland	Disneyland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mean	ccomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 times	case
8	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Disneyland	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 Disneyland	punct
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 mean	aux
12	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 mean	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 loved	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 loved	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 loved	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 loved	nsubj
18	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mean	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 loved	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 asking	punct
21	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 reply	csubj
22	about	about	ADP	_	25 ride	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 ride	nmod:poss
24	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ride	amod
25	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asking	obl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 reply	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 reply	det
28	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 reply	amod
29	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mean	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present · perfect	children = child		time	to Disneyland	tree rules
2	mean	might				twice property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	love	past	visit	house			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	ask speech: ask	gerund				about visit's favourite ride	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about ride=Topic
5	be speech: assert	present	asking	a friendly reply			tree rules
6	ride		visit				nom ride «act transitive»: poss=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:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.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): 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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