Greeting friends and relatives, sentence 16
A boy in Leeds hugged his cousin hard every time even though she said she did not like it; she started avoiding family visits until a grown-up explained he must ask first.
Who acts: boy, Leeds, grown up, up · What happens: hug, say, not like, start, avoid, explain · To what, where: cousin, family visits · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting friends and relatives» 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, Leeds, grown up, up), 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 hugged | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | hugged | hug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hugged | obj |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 hugged | advmod |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hugged | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 said | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hugged | advcl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 like | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 like | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 like | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 like | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 started | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 started | nsubj |
| 22 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hugged | parataxis |
| 23 | avoiding | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 started | xcomp |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 visits | compound |
| 25 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 avoiding | obj |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 31 explained | mark |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 up | det |
| 28 | grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 up | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 up | punct |
| 30 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 explained | nsubj |
| 31 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 started | advcl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 ask | nsubj |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 ask | aux |
| 34 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 explained | ccomp |
| 35 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 ask | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hugged | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hug | past | a boy in Leeds | boy's cousin | time | hard property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Leeds | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | Leeds | cousin | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | start | past | Leeds | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | avoid | gerund | Leeds not said here | family visits | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent visit=Location | ||||
| 6 | explain speech: assert | past | a grown up | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | must | up | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:everyday:122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.lesson:16.
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.
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