Greeting neighbours and new people, sentence 16

A boy in Leeds was rude to a new neighbour's child for being from another country; the families fell out, and he lost a friend he later wished he had.

Who acts: boy, families, family · What happens: be, fall out, lose, wish, have · To what, where: country, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting neighbours and new people» 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, families, family), 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	6 rude	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rude	cop
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	12 child	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 neighbour	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 neighbour	amod
10	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 child	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 neighbour	case
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rude	obl
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 country	mark
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 country	cop
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 country	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 country	det
17	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 child	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 fell	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 families	det
20	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fell	nsubj
21	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rude	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 fell	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lost	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lost	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lost	nsubj
26	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fell	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 friend	det
28	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lost	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wished	nsubj
30	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 wished	advmod
31	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 friend	acl:relcl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wished	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rude	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	a boy in Leeds			to a new neighbour's child; rude property	tree rules
2	is	gerund			another country		tree rules
3	fall out	past	the families				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lose	past	family	a friend			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Eventuality
5	wish	past	family	a friend not said here		late property	tree rules
6	have	past	family				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:123-neighbours-and-new-people.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 ×2. 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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