What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 1
My cousin's doctor said so." Everyone gasps, and somebody quietly spits theirs into a tissue.
Who acts: doctor, Everyone, somebody · What happens: say, gasp, spit · To what, where: theirs, tissue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths 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 (doctor, Everyone, somebody), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doctor | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 cousin | case |
| 4 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 9 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 gasps | nsubj |
| 10 | gasps | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spits | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spits | cc |
| 13 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 spits | nsubj |
| 14 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 15 spits | advmod |
| 15 | spits | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 gasps | conj |
| 16 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 spits | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 tissue | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tissue | det |
| 19 | tissue | tissue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spits | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My cousin's doctor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | gasp in a quote | present | Everyone | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spit in a quote | present | somebody | theirs = they | a tissue | quietly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent their=Theme |
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:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.lesson:1.
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 ×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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