School legends, sentence 6
Schools take a register every day, and an absence is usually followed up quickly by phone calls, letters or visits, so a pupil missing a whole year would be noticed.
Who acts: Schools, phone calls, pupil · What happens: take, follow up, miss, notice · To what, where: register, absence, pupil
This is a sentence of the lesson «School legends» 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 (Schools, phone calls, pupil), 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 | Schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 take | nsubj |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 register | det |
| 4 | register | register | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 followed | cc |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 absence | det |
| 10 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 followed | aux:pass |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 13 followed | advmod |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 take | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 followed | compound:prt |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 followed | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 calls | case |
| 17 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 calls | compound |
| 18 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 followed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 letters | punct |
| 20 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 calls | conj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 visits | cc |
| 22 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 calls | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 noticed | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 noticed | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pupil | det |
| 26 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | missing | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 pupil | acl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 year | det |
| 29 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 year | amod |
| 30 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 missing | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 noticed | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 noticed | aux:pass |
| 33 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 take | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Schools | a register | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent register=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow up | present · passive | phone calls and letters or visits | a absence | quickly, usually property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | miss | gerund | a pupil not said here | year | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | notice | would · passive | a pupil | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=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:myths:024-school-legends.lesson:6.
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): 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.
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