Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 17
A boy in Ireland squeezed new classmates' hands as hard as he could to look strong; one girl's hand hurt and she told the teacher, who asked him to stop.
Who acts: boy, hand, girl, teacher · What happens: squeeze, look, hurt, tell, ask, stop · To what, where: hands, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» 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, hand, 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 squeezed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 classmates | amod |
| 7 | classmates | classmate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 classmates | case |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 squeezed | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 hard | advmod |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 squeezed | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 could | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 could | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 look | aux |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hard | advcl |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 look | xcomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 hurt | punct |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 girl | nummod |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 girl | case |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hurt | nsubj |
| 23 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 squeezed | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 told | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 told | nsubj |
| 26 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hurt | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 teacher | det |
| 28 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 told | iobj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 asked | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 asked | nsubj |
| 31 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 asked | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 stop | mark |
| 34 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 asked | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 squeezed | 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 | squeeze | past | a boy in Ireland | new classmates's hands | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | could | a boy in Ireland not said here | strong property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hurt | past | one girl's hand | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | girl | the teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | the teacher | teacher | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the teacher not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.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): R5-strong ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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