Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry, sentence 16
A boy in Leeds never said sorry after he knocked his friend's tower down on purpose; his friend stopped playing with him, and the fight lasted for weeks.
Who acts: boy, friend, fight · What happens: not say, knock down, stop, play, last · To what, where: tower, purpose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» 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, friend, fight), 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 said | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 said | advmod |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | xcomp |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 knocked | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knocked | nsubj |
| 10 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friend | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tower | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 friend | case |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knocked | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 knocked | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 purpose | case |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knocked | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 stopped | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friend | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stopped | nsubj |
| 21 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 22 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 stopped | xcomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 playing | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lasted | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lasted | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fight | det |
| 28 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lasted | nsubj |
| 29 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stopped | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 weeks | case |
| 31 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 lasted | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: apologize | past | a boy in Leeds | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | knock down | past | boy | boy's friend's tower | purpose | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tower=Theme on purpose=Destination | |||
| 3 | stop | past | boy's friend | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | play | gerund | boy's friend not said here | with boy | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | last | past | the fight | week | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry.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, R8-pos-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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