Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 10
For a birthday party many people come a little after the start, so arriving at 3:00 sharp can mean sitting alone with the birthday boy's mum.
Who acts: many people, arriving · What happens: come, arrive, mean, sit · To what, where: little, 3:00
This is a sentence of the lesson «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» of the world 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 (many people, arriving), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 party | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 party | det |
| 3 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 party | compound |
| 4 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 come | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 start | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 start | det |
| 12 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 party | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 arriving | advmod |
| 15 | arriving | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 mean | csubj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 3:00 | case |
| 17 | 3:00 | 3:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 arriving | obl |
| 18 | sharp | sharp | ADV | _ | 17 3:00 | advmod |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 mean | aux |
| 20 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | parataxis |
| 21 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 mean | xcomp |
| 22 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 21 sitting | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 mum | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boy | det |
| 25 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 boy | compound |
| 26 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mum | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 boy | case |
| 28 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sitting | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | many people | a little | after the start | for a birthday party | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | arrive | gerund | 3:00 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mean | can | arriving | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sit not said to happen | gerund | arriving not said here | with the birthday boy's mum; alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:10.
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 ×3. 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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