Anger and fears, sentence 19

A girl in Vancouver was so afraid of the dentist that she hid her toothache for months; by the time she told anyone the tooth had to come out.

Who acts: girl, tooth · What happens: be, hide, tell, have, come out · To what, where: toothache, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger and fears» 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, tooth), 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 afraid	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Vancouver	case
4	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 afraid	advmod
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 dentist	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dentist	det
10	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 afraid	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 hid	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hid	nsubj
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 toothache	nmod:poss
15	toothache	toothache	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hid	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 months	case
17	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hid	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 time	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	obl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	advcl
24	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 told	iobj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tooth	det
26	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 come	mark
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
30	out	out	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a girl in Vancouver				of the dentist; afraid property	tree rules
2	hide	past	girl	girl's toothache		month		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothache=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past	girl		anyone	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
4	have	past	the tooth					tree rules
5	come out	to-infinitive	the tooth not said here				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:212-anger-and-fears.lesson:19.

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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