"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 6
The Game Boy of 1989 had a small greenish screen and kids loved it as much as kids love new consoles now; music came on cassette tapes, and people wound the tape back with a pencil to save the batteries.
Who acts: Game Boy, kids, music, people · What happens: have, love, come, wind back, save · To what, where: small greenish screen, screen, new consoles, cassette tapes, tape, batteries
This is a sentence of the lesson «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» 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 (Game Boy, kids, music, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Boy | det |
| 2 | Game | game | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Boy | compound |
| 3 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 1989 | case |
| 5 | 1989 | 1989 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Boy | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 screen | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 screen | amod |
| 9 | greenish | greenish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 screen | amod |
| 10 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 loved | cc |
| 12 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 loved | nsubj |
| 13 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 loved | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 loved | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 love | mark |
| 18 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 love | nsubj |
| 19 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 much | advcl |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 consoles | amod |
| 21 | consoles | console | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 love | obj |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | _ | 19 love | advmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 24 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | parataxis |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 tapes | case |
| 27 | cassette | cassette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tapes | compound |
| 28 | tapes | tape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wound | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wound | cc |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 wound | nsubj |
| 32 | wound | wind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tape | det |
| 34 | tape | tape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wound | obj |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 wound | advmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 pencil | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 pencil | det |
| 38 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wound | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 save | mark |
| 40 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wound | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 batteries | det |
| 42 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 save | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Game Boy of 1989 | a small greenish screen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screen=Patient | ||||
| 2 | love | past | kids | screen | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | love | present | kids | new consoles | now | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer console=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | come | past | music | cassette tapes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tape=Location | ||||
| 5 | wind back | past | people | the tape | with a pencil | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tape=Theme | |||
| 6 | save | to-infinitive | people not said here | the batteries | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=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:world:126-in-the-olden-days.lesson:6.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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