Reading faces and voices, sentence 5

A boy in Manchester did not notice his friend's clenched jaw and quiet voice and kept teasing him; the friend finally shoved him, he fell, and they did not speak for weeks.

Who acts: boy, friend, jaw · What happens: not notice, clench, keep, tease, shove, fall · To what, where: clenched jaw, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» 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, jaw), 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	7 notice	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Manchester	case
4	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 notice	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 notice	advmod
7	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friend	nmod:poss
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jaw	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 friend	case
11	clenched	clench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 jaw	amod
12	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 notice	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 voice	cc
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 voice	amod
15	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jaw	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kept	cc
17	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 notice	conj
18	teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 kept	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 teasing	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 shoved	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 friend	det
22	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shoved	nsubj
23	finally	finally	ADV	_	24 shoved	advmod
24	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 notice	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shoved	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fell	nsubj
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 notice	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 speak	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 speak	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 speak	nsubj
32	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 speak	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 speak	advmod
34	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 notice	parataxis
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 weeks	case
36	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 speak	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 notice	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	past · do-support	a boy in Manchester	boy's friend's clenched jaw and quiet voice			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer jaw=Stimulus
2	clench	participle					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	keep	past	a boy in Manchester not said here				tree rules
4	tease	gerund	a boy in Manchester not said here	boy			vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	shove	past	the friend	boy		finally property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	fall	past	friend				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not speak speech: other	past · do-support	jaw		week		vn talk-37.5 «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:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:5.

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): R6-punct-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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