Growing, seeing and hearing, sentence 16

A girl in Ohio could not see the board well but did not tell anyone; her marks dropped for a year until an eye test showed she just needed glasses.

Who acts: girl, marks, eye test · What happens: not see, not tell, drop, show, need, mark · To what, where: board, anyone, glasses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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, marks, eye test), 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	7 see	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 board	det
9	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 see	advmod
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 see	conj
15	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 tell	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 dropped	punct
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 marks	nmod:poss
18	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dropped	nsubj
19	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 see	parataxis
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 year	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 year	det
22	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dropped	obl
23	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 showed	mark
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 test	det
25	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 test	compound
26	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 showed	nsubj
27	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dropped	advcl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 needed	nsubj
29	just	just	ADV	_	30 needed	advmod
30	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 showed	ccomp
31	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 needed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	a girl in Ohio	the board			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer board=Stimulus
2	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	a girl in Ohio not said here		anyone			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
3	drop	past	girl's marks			year		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	show	past	a eye test					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	need	past	girl	glasses				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme
6	mark		girl					nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=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:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.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): 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.

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