Greeting friends and relatives, sentence 17
A girl in Texas ignored her friends when they said hi because she was in a bad mood; by the end of the week they had stopped asking her to play.
Who acts: girl, visits · What happens: ignore, say, be, stop, ask, play · To what, where: friends, bad mood, girl · 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 (girl, visits), 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 | 5 ignored | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ignored | obj |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 said | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ignored | advcl |
| 11 | hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 10 said | discourse |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 mood | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 mood | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mood | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 mood | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mood | det |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mood | amod |
| 18 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ignored | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 ignored | punct |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stopped | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 week | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 week | det |
| 25 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 end | nmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 stopped | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 stopped | aux |
| 28 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 ignored | parataxis |
| 29 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 stopped | xcomp |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 asking | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 play | mark |
| 32 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 asking | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ignored | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | past | a girl in Texas | girl's friends | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | visits = visit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | girl | a bad mood | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stop | past · perfect | visits = visit | by the end of the week | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | gerund | visits = visit not said here | girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | visits = visit not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «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:122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.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): 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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