Cheating at games and sport, sentence 1
At sports day Kieran starts before the whistle and his egg is stuck to the spoon with Blu Tack; he may get the ribbon, but not the real win, because the skill and the joy were never his.
Who acts: Kieran, egg, skill · What happens: start, stick, get, not be · To what, where: egg, ribbon, Kieran
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating at games and sport» 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 (Kieran, egg, skill), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 day | compound |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 starts | obl |
| 4 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 starts | nsubj |
| 5 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 whistle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 whistle | det |
| 8 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 starts | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stuck | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 egg | nmod:poss |
| 11 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stuck | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stuck | aux:pass |
| 13 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 starts | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 spoon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spoon | det |
| 16 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stuck | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Tack | case |
| 18 | Blu | Blu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Tack | compound |
| 19 | Tack | tack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stuck | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 starts | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ribbon | det |
| 25 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 win | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 win | cc |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 win | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 win | det |
| 30 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 win | amod |
| 31 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ribbon | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 skill | punct |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 41 his | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 skill | det |
| 35 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 his | nsubj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 joy | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 joy | det |
| 38 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 skill | conj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 his | cop |
| 40 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 41 his | advmod |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 get | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Kieran | before the whistle; day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stick | present · passive | Kieran's egg | to the spoon; with Blu Tack | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | may | egg | the ribbon but the real win | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ribbon=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not is a | past | the skill and the joy | Kieran | 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:religion-ethics:093-cheating-at-games-and-sport.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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