Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault, sentence 1
Through the wall Maisie heard Mum and Dad shouting again, a door slammed and Dad's car left; she lay awake thinking, "Is it 'cause I was bad at tea?
Who acts: Maisie, Mum, door, car · What happens: hear, shout, slam, leave, lay, think · To what, where: Mum, wall, tea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the reflection 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 (Maisie, Mum, door, car), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 wall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 4 | Maisie | Maisie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 slammed | parataxis |
| 6 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Dad | cc |
| 8 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mum | conj |
| 9 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Mum | acl |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 shouting | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slammed | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slammed | nsubj |
| 14 | slammed | slam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 left | cc |
| 16 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 car | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Dad | case |
| 18 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | nsubj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 slammed | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 slammed | conj |
| 23 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lay | xcomp |
| 24 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 lay | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thinking | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 27 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 bad | cop |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 bad | nsubj |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 bad | punct |
| 30 | cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 33 bad | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 bad | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 bad | cop |
| 33 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thinking | ccomp |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 tea | case |
| 35 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bad | obl |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Maisie | Mum and Dad | the wall | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | Mum and Dad not said here | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | slam | participle | a door | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | Dad's car | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lay | past | door | awake property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | gerund | door not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | car | tea | bad property | 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:reflection:012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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