Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 3

Vivid example: in the supermarket a toddler lies on the floor kicking and yelling, and his mum smiles at the cashier: «Sorry, he's a bit overexcited.»

Who acts: toddler, mum · What happens: lie, kick, yell, smile, be · To what, where: supermarket, cashier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms 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 (toddler, mum), 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	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 example	amod
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 lies	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 supermarket	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 supermarket	det
6	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lies	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 toddler	det
8	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lies	nsubj
9	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 example	appos
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 floor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lies	obl
13	kicking	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 lies	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 yelling	cc
15	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 kicking	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 smiles	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 smiles	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mum	nmod:poss
19	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smiles	nsubj
20	smiles	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lies	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 cashier	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cashier	det
23	cashier	cashier	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smiles	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Sorry	punct
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 Sorry	punct
26	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	32 overexcited	discourse
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Sorry	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 overexcited	nsubj
29	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 overexcited	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bit	det
31	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 overexcited	obl:unmarked
32	overexcited	overexcite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 example	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 overexcited	punct
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 overexcited	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present	a toddler	the supermarket	on the floor	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in supermarket=Location
2	kick	gerund	a toddler not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	yell speech: express	gerund	a toddler not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	smile	present	toddler's mum	the cashier		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	toddler		a bit obl:unmarked; overexcite property	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:euphemisms:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:3.

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. 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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