Reading faces and voices, sentence 6
A girl in Toronto saw that her friend looked pale, would not talk and stared at the floor; she told a teacher, and the friend got help for a problem she had been hiding.
Who acts: girl, friend · What happens: see, look, not talk, stare, tell, get · To what, where: teacher, help, problem · 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 (girl, friend), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Toronto | case |
| 4 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 looked | mark |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looked | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 talk | punct |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 talk | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 talk | advmod |
| 14 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 looked | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stared | cc |
| 16 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 floor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floor | det |
| 19 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stared | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | nsubj |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 teacher | det |
| 24 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | iobj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 got | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 got | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 friend | det |
| 28 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 got | nsubj |
| 29 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 told | conj |
| 30 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 got | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 problem | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 problem | det |
| 33 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 got | obl |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hiding | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 hiding | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 hiding | aux |
| 37 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 problem | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | 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 | see | past | a girl in Toronto | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look | past | girl's friend | pale property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not talk | would | girl's friend not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stare | past | a girl in Toronto not said here | at the floor | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at floor=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | girl | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | get | past | the friend | help | for a problem | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent help=Theme for problem=Source | |||
| 7 | hide | past · perfect · progressive | girl | a problem not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Patient |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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