Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 0
Dad snaps "Phone off!" at the petrol pump, your big cousin swears the pool water turns red if you wee, and Ella says a shark once swam into the hotel pool through the pipes.
Who acts: Dad, big cousin, pool water, you, Ella, shark · What happens: snap, swear, turn, wee, say, swim · To what, where: Phone, petrol pump, hotel pool · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» 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 (Dad, big cousin, pool water, you), 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 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snaps | nsubj |
| 2 | snaps | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Phone | punct |
| 4 | Phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snaps | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 Phone | compound:prt |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Phone | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Phone | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 pump | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pump | det |
| 10 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pump | compound |
| 11 | pump | pump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snaps | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swears | punct |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cousin | amod |
| 15 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swears | nsubj |
| 16 | swears | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 snaps | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 18 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 water | compound |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turns | nsubj |
| 20 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 swears | ccomp |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 turns | xcomp |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 wee | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 wee | nsubj |
| 24 | wee | wee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 turns | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 says | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 says | cc |
| 27 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 says | nsubj |
| 28 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 snaps | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 shark | det |
| 30 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 swam | nsubj |
| 31 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 32 swam | advmod |
| 32 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 says | ccomp |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 pool | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 pool | det |
| 35 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pool | compound |
| 36 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 swam | obl |
| 37 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 pipes | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pipes | det |
| 39 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 swam | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 snaps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | present | Dad | Phone | the petrol pump | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location phone=Theme | |||
| 2 | swear | present | your big cousin | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | present | the pool water | red property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wee a condition, not said to happen | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | Ella | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | swim | past | a shark | the hotel pool | through the pipes; once property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pool=Destination |
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:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:0.
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 ×2, 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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