Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 1
Max heard his parents talking about money and "losing the house", and for two weeks he had tummy aches and couldn't concentrate, lying awake thinking, "Where will we live?
Who acts: Max, parents, we · What happens: hear, talk, lose, have, not concentrate, lie · To what, where: parents, house, tummy aches · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» 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 (Max, parents, we), 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 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 parents | nmod:poss |
| 4 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 heard | xcomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 money | case |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talking | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 losing | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 losing | punct |
| 10 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 talking | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 losing | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 losing | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 weeks | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 weeks | nummod |
| 18 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 had | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 21 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 aches | compound |
| 22 | aches | ache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 concentrate | cc |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 concentrate | aux |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 concentrate | advmod |
| 26 | concentrate | concentrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lying | punct |
| 28 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 concentrate | advcl |
| 29 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lying | advmod |
| 30 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 lying | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 live | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 live | punct |
| 33 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 live | advmod |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 live | aux |
| 35 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 live | nsubj |
| 36 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 thinking | ccomp |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Max | Max's parents | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | Max's parents not said here | about money | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about money=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | gerund | Max's parents not said here | the house | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Max | tummy aches | week | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ache=Patient | |||
| 5 | not concentrate | could | Max not said here | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | lie | gerund | Max not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | think speech: other | gerund | Max not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | live in a quote | future | we | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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