Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who, sentence 10

In standard written English the subject is "Sam and I went"; "me and Sam went" is very common in everyday speech and everyone understands it.

Who acts: Sam, me, subject, everyone · What happens: write, go, be, understand · To what, where: standard written English, everyday speech, subject · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who» 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 (Sam, me, subject, everyone), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 English	case
2	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 English	amod
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 English	amod
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 subject	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 subject	det
6	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 common	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 common	cop
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Sam	punct
9	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Sam	conj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 English	acl:relcl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 common	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Sam	cc
18	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 me	conj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 common	csubj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 common	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 common	advmod
23	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 speech	case
25	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 speech	amod
26	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 common	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 understands	cc
28	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	29 understands	nsubj
29	understands	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 went	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 understands	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 common	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go in a quote	past	Sam	standard written English not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location english=Theme
3	go in a quote	past	me				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	the subject in standard written English		everyday speech	common property	tree rules
5	understand	present	everyone	subject			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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