Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 7
Example: a boy in Belfast keeps calling a classmate «Four Eyes» because of his glasses.
Who acts: boy · What happens: keep, call · To what, where: classmate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?» 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), 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 | Example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 calling | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeps | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Belfast | case |
| 6 | Belfast | Belfast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | nmod |
| 7 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Example | appos |
| 8 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 keeps | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 classmate | det |
| 10 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calling | obj |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 Eyes | punct |
| 12 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Eyes | nummod |
| 13 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 classmate | appos |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 Eyes | punct |
| 15 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 glasses | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 because | fixed |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 glasses | nmod:poss |
| 18 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 calling | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | 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 | keep | present | a boy in Belfast | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | gerund | a boy in Belfast not said here | a classmate | because boy's glasses | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent classmate=Recipient |
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:203-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:7.
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, 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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