Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 1

Ollie kicks a ball indoors and smashes Mum's vase; no one saw, and the cat is sitting right next to it, but blaming the cat is the oldest trick in the book: Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent (Genesis 3:12-13).

Who acts: Ollie, one, cat, blaming, Adam, Eve · What happens: kick, smash, see, sit, blame, be · To what, where: ball, vase, cat, oldest trick, book, Eve · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» of the religion ethics 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 (Ollie, one, cat, blaming), 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	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kicks	nsubj
2	kicks	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicks	obj
5	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	2 kicks	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smashes	cc
7	smashes	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kicks	conj
8	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 vase	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Mum	case
10	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smashes	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kicks	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sitting	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sitting	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cat	det
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sitting	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sitting	aux
20	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 saw	ccomp
21	right	right	ADV	_	22 next	advmod
22	next	next	ADV	_	20 sitting	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 next	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 trick	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 trick	cc
27	blaming	blame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 trick	csubj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cat	det
29	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blaming	obj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 trick	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trick	det
32	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 trick	amod
33	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sitting	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 book	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 book	det
36	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 trick	nmod
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 Adam	punct
38	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 blamed	nsubj
39	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kicks	parataxis
40	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 blamed	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 blamed	cc
42	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 blamed	nsubj
43	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 blamed	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 serpent	det
45	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 blamed	obj
46	(	(	PUNCT	_	47 Genesis	punct
47	Genesis	Genesis	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 serpent	appos
48	3:12-13	3:12-13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	47 Genesis	flat
49	)	)	PUNCT	_	47 Genesis	punct
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kicks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kick	present	Ollie	a ball		indoors property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
2	smash	present	Ollie not said here	Mum's vase			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=Theme
3	see	past	no one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	sit	present · progressive	the cat			next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	blame	gerund		the cat			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
6	is a	present	blaming	the oldest trick	the book		tree rules
7	blame	past	Adam	Eve			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eve=Theme
8	blame	past	Eve	the serpent			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=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:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.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): 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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