Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 13
Tallymen are party helpers who watch the Irish count and keep their own tally to guess the result early.
Who acts: Tallymen, party helpers · What happens: be, watch, keep, guess, tally · To what, where: party helpers, Irish count, own tally, result
This is a sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» of the politics 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 (Tallymen, party helpers), 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 | Tallymen | tallyman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 helpers | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 helpers | cop |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helpers | compound |
| 4 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 watch | nsubj |
| 6 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 helpers | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 count | det |
| 8 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 count | amod |
| 9 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watch | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 keep | cc |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 watch | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tally | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tally | amod |
| 14 | tally | tally | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 guess | mark |
| 16 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 keep | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 result | det |
| 18 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 guess | obj |
| 19 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 guess | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 helpers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tallymen | party helpers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | present | party helpers | the Irish count | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent count=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | party helpers not said here | Tallymen's own tally | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tally=Theme | ||||
| 4 | guess | to-infinitive | party helpers not said here | the result | early property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Theme | |||
| 5 | tally | Tallymen = tallyman | nom tally «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:politics:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:13.
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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