When it was my fault: owning up and making it right, sentence 1
Noah's dad asked him to watch his little sister in the park while he took a call; Noah played on his phone, she fell off the climbing frame and broke her arm, and for weeks the sight of her cast made him feel sick: "If I'd been watching, she wouldn't have fallen."
Who acts: dad, Noah, person, sight · What happens: ask, watch, take, play, fall off, break · To what, where: Noah, little sister, park, call, phone, climbing frame · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» 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, Noah, person, sight), 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 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Noah | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 watch | mark |
| 7 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sister | amod |
| 10 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watch | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 park | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 park | det |
| 13 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watch | obl |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 took | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 watch | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 call | det |
| 18 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 played | punct |
| 20 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 played | nsubj |
| 21 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 phone | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 phone | nmod:poss |
| 24 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 played | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fell | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fell | nsubj |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 frame | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 frame | det |
| 30 | climbing | climbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 frame | compound |
| 31 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 broke | cc |
| 33 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fell | conj |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 arm | nmod:poss |
| 35 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 broke | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 made | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 made | cc |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 weeks | case |
| 39 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 made | obl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sight | det |
| 41 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 made | nsubj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 cast | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 cast | nmod:poss |
| 44 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sight | nmod |
| 45 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 broke | conj |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 made | obj |
| 47 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 made | xcomp |
| 48 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 feel | xcomp |
| 49 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 55 watching | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 watching | punct |
| 51 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 55 watching | mark |
| 52 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 55 watching | nsubj |
| 53 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 watching | aux |
| 54 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 55 watching | aux |
| 55 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 61 fallen | advcl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 fallen | punct |
| 57 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 fallen | nsubj |
| 58 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 61 fallen | aux |
| 59 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 61 fallen | advmod |
| 60 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 61 fallen | aux |
| 61 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 broke | conj |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Noah's dad | Noah | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | watch not said to happen | to-infinitive | Noah's dad not said here | dad's little sister | the park | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past | dad | a call | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | ||||
| 4 | play | past | Noah | Noah's phone | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fall off | past | person | the climbing frame | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient frame=Extent | ||||
| 6 | break | past | person not said here | person's arm | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient | ||||
| 7 | make | past | the sight of person's cast | Noah | week | tree rules | |||
| 8 | feel | infinitive | Noah not said here | sick property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | watch a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect · progressive | Noah's dad = dad | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | not fall in a quote | would · perfect | person | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 11 | sight | person's cast | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.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): no change. 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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