Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, sentence 9
Families take the mickey (tease and make fun) out of the reasoning, not the person: "Grandad, the players can't even see your socks, mate." Grandad can love his socks and still laugh along.
Who acts: Families, players, Grandad · What happens: take, make, not see, love, laugh · To what, where: mickey, reasoning, fun, socks · 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 (Families, players, Grandad), 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 | Families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 take | nsubj |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mickey | det |
| 4 | mickey | mickey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 tease | punct |
| 6 | tease | tease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mickey | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 make | cc |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tease | conj |
| 9 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 tease | punct |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 reasoning | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 reasoning | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reasoning | det |
| 14 | reasoning | reasoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 person | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 person | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reasoning | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Grandad | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Grandad | punct |
| 21 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 person | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 players | det |
| 24 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 see | nsubj |
| 25 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 see | advmod |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 see | advmod |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Grandad | parataxis |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 socks | nmod:poss |
| 30 | socks | sock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 see | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 mate | punct |
| 32 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 see | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 love | punct |
| 35 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 love | nsubj |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 love | aux |
| 37 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 take | parataxis |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 socks | nmod:poss |
| 39 | socks | sock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 love | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 laugh | cc |
| 41 | still | still | ADV | _ | 42 laugh | advmod |
| 42 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 love | conj |
| 43 | along | along | ADV | _ | 42 laugh | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Families | the mickey and tease | the reasoning and the person Grandad | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent mickey=Theme out reasoning=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | make | infinitive | Families not said here | fun | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product | ||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | can | the players | your socks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sock=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | love | can | Grandad | Grandad's socks | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sock=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | laugh | present | Grandad not said here | still | along property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:9.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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