Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 18

A girl in Leeds would not greet or answer her new teacher for weeks because she was shy; the teacher thought she was unhappy at school, and it took a long talk with her mum to sort it out.

Who acts: girl, teacher · What happens: not greet, answer, be, think, take, sort out · To what, where: new teacher, school, parent · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting adults and teachers» 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 (girl, teacher), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 greet	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	_	2 girl	nmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 greet	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 greet	advmod
7	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 answer	cc
9	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 greet	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 teacher	nmod:poss
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teacher	amod
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answer	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 weeks	case
14	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 answer	obl
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 shy	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shy	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shy	cop
18	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answer	advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 teacher	det
21	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shy	conj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 unhappy	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 unhappy	cop
25	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thought	ccomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 school	case
27	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 unhappy	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 took	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	expl
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thought	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 talk	det
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 talk	amod
34	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 mum	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 mum	nmod:poss
37	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 talk	nmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 sort	mark
39	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 took	csubj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 sort	obj
41	out	out	ADP	_	39 sort	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 greet	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not greet speech: greet	would	a girl in Leeds						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	infinitive	a girl in Leeds not said here		girl's new teacher		week		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent teacher=Eventuality
3	is	past	girl					shy property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	the teacher						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	girl			school		unhappy property	tree rules
6	take	past	the teacher not said here	parent					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Theme
7	sort out	to-infinitive		parent					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers.lesson:18.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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.

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