Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, sentence 2
The socks did it." When they lose in the same socks, he finds an excuse: "they were in the wash the day before." He remembers the hits and forgets the misses.
Who acts: socks, team · What happens: do, lose, find, be, remember, forget · To what, where: match, same socks, excuse, wash, hits, misses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» 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 (socks, team), 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 | 2 socks | det |
| 2 | socks | sock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 finds | punct |
| 7 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 lose | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lose | nsubj |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 finds | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 socks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 socks | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 socks | amod |
| 13 | socks | sock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lose | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 finds | nsubj |
| 16 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 excuse | det |
| 18 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finds | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 finds | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 wash | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wash | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 wash | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 wash | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wash | det |
| 25 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finds | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wash | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | before | before | ADV | _ | 27 day | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 wash | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 wash | punct |
| 31 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 remembers | nsubj |
| 32 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hits | det |
| 34 | hits | hit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 remembers | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 forgets | cc |
| 36 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 remembers | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 misses | det |
| 38 | misses | miss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 forgets | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the socks | match | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | present | socks = sock | the same socks | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in sock=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | present | team | a excuse | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent excuse=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | socks = sock | the wash | day | tree rules | |||
| 5 | remember in a quote | present | team | the hits | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hit=Theme | ||||
| 6 | forget in a quote | present | team not said here | the misses | 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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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