Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark, sentence 17
A boy in Ohio watched a kid being pushed around every day and said nothing; one day the kid was hurt badly, and the boy wished he had told a teacher sooner.
Who acts: boy · What happens: watch, push around, say, hurt, wish, tell · To what, where: kid, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» of the everyday 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 (boy), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watched | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kid | det |
| 7 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watched | obj |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 pushed | aux:pass |
| 9 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 kid | acl |
| 10 | around | around | ADV | _ | 9 pushed | advmod |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pushed | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watched | conj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 said | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 hurt | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hurt | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kid | det |
| 20 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hurt | aux:pass |
| 22 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 watched | conj |
| 23 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 hurt | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wished | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wished | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 boy | det |
| 27 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wished | nsubj |
| 28 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watched | conj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 told | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 told | aux |
| 31 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 wished | ccomp |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 teacher | det |
| 33 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sooner | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 told | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | a boy in Ohio | a kid | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme | ||||
| 2 | push around | gerund · passive | a kid not said here | day | around property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP» | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a boy in Ohio not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hurt | past · passive | the kid | day | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | wish | past | the boy | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | boy | soon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.lesson:17.
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. 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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