My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 9
«I'm the fastest kid in the whole world» after winning one race means «I'm fast and happy I won»; there is no world ranking for Year 5, and «Nice run!» is enough.
Who acts: someone, I, fastest kid, world ranking, Nice run · What happens: be, win, mean · To what, where: fastest kid, whole world, one race · 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 (someone, I, fastest kid, world ranking), 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 kid | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 kid | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kid | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kid | det |
| 5 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 kid | amod |
| 6 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 world | amod |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kid | nmod |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 kid | punct |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 winning | mark |
| 13 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 kid | advcl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 race | nummod |
| 15 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 winning | obj |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 fast | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fast | nsubj |
| 19 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fast | cop |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 means | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 happy | cc |
| 22 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fast | conj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 won | nsubj |
| 24 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fast | ccomp |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 fast | punct |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 is | punct |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 is | expl |
| 28 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 means | parataxis |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 ranking | det |
| 30 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ranking | compound |
| 31 | ranking | ranking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 is | nsubj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 Year | case |
| 33 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ranking | nmod |
| 34 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 Year | flat |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 enough | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 enough | cc |
| 37 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 39 run | punct |
| 38 | Nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 run | amod |
| 39 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 enough | nsubj |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 39 run | punct |
| 41 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 39 run | punct |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 enough | cop |
| 43 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 is | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | someone | the fastest kid | the whole world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | win | gerund | I not said here | one race | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | the fastest kid | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | someone | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | someone not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | win in a quote | past | someone | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | be | present | no world ranking for Year | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | present | Nice run | enough property | 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:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:9.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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