Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 1
Jayden's dad promised to come to the football final and didn't turn up again, no call; Jayden scanned the sideline the whole match, played badly and angry, and that night thought, "He never comes.
Who acts: dad, Jayden, night · What happens: promise, come, not turn up, scan, play, think · To what, where: football final, sideline · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» 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 (dad, Jayden, night), 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 | Jayden | Jayden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jayden | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 football | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 final | det |
| 9 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 final | compound |
| 10 | final | final | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turn | cc |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 turn | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 turn | advmod |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 turn | compound:prt |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 turn | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 call | punct |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 call | det |
| 19 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turn | parataxis |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 scanned | punct |
| 21 | Jayden | Jayden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 scanned | nsubj |
| 22 | scanned | scan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sideline | det |
| 24 | sideline | sideline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 scanned | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 match | det |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 match | amod |
| 27 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 scanned | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 played | punct |
| 29 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 scanned | conj |
| 30 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 played | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 angry | cc |
| 32 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 badly | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 thought | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 thought | cc |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 night | det |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 thought | nsubj |
| 37 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 thought | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 thought | punct |
| 40 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 comes | nsubj |
| 41 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 42 comes | advmod |
| 42 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 thought | ccomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Jayden's dad | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jayden's dad not said here | the football final | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not turn up | past · do-support | Jayden's dad not said here | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | scan | past | Jayden | the sideline | the whole match obl:unmarked | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sideline=Theme | |||
| 5 | play | past | Jayden not said here | badly property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | that night | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not come in a quote | present | dad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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