Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who, sentence 5
The take-out trick: remove the other person and listen; "Mum gave sweets to I" sounds wrong and "to me" sounds right, so it is "to Ben and me".
Who acts: Mum, person · What happens: remove, listen, give, sound, be · To what, where: other person, sweets, I, me
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 (Mum, person), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trick | det |
| 2 | take | take | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 out | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 out | punct |
| 4 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trick | compound |
| 5 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 remove | punct |
| 7 | remove | remove | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 person | amod |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remove | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 listen | cc |
| 12 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 remove | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | parataxis |
| 17 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gave | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 I | case |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | obl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 21 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 gave | conj |
| 22 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sounds | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 me | cc |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 me | punct |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 sounds | obl |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 me | punct |
| 28 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sounds | conj |
| 29 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sounds | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Ben | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 Ben | advmod |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 Ben | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 Ben | cop |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Ben | punct |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Ben | case |
| 36 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 me | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 me | cc |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 Ben | conj |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Ben | punct |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | infinitive | the other person | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | |||||
| 2 | listen | infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | give in a quote | past | Mum | sweets | I | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | sound | present | Mum not said here | wrong property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sound | present | Mum not said here | me | right property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to i=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | person | to Ben | 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:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:5.
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 ×3. 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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