Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 0
Charlie bets Noah a chocolate bar that he can hold his breath for five minutes: "My cousin can do it." But his cousin doing it (maybe) says nothing about Charlie, and last time Charlie went red at 30 seconds.
Who acts: Charlie, cousin · What happens: bet, hold, do, say, go · To what, where: Noah, breath, cousin, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» 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 (Charlie, cousin), 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 | Charlie | Charlie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bets | nsubj |
| 2 | bets | bet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bets | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bar | det |
| 5 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bar | compound |
| 6 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bets | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 hold | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hold | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hold | aux |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bar | acl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 breath | nmod:poss |
| 12 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 minutes | case |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 minutes | nummod |
| 15 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hold | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 18 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bets | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 25 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 says | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 27 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 says | nsubj |
| 28 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 cousin | acl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 doing | obj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 maybe | punct |
| 31 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 33 says | advmod |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 maybe | punct |
| 33 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bets | conj |
| 34 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 33 says | obj |
| 35 | about | about | ADP | _ | 36 Charlie | case |
| 36 | Charlie | Charlie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 nothing | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 went | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 went | cc |
| 39 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 time | amod |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 went | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | Charlie | Charlie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 went | nsubj |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bets | conj |
| 43 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 went | xcomp |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 seconds | case |
| 45 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 46 seconds | nummod |
| 46 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 went | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator, hedge=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bet | present | Charlie | Noah | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent noah=Recipient bar=Asset | ||||
| 2 | hold | can | Charlie | Charlie's breath | minute | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | can | My cousin | breath | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | do | gerund | Charlie's cousin not said here | cousin | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | Charlie's cousin | nothing | about Charlie; maybe property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 6 | go | past | Charlie | second; time | red property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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