Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 4

A girl in Denver is told by an older boy to keep quiet about him taking her lunch; she tells her teacher anyway, and the teacher makes it stop.

Who acts: older boy, girl, boy, teacher, lunch · What happens: tell, keep, take, make, stop · To what, where: girl, lunch, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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 (older boy, girl, boy, teacher), 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	6 told	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Denver	case
4	Denver	Denver	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 boy	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
9	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl:agent
11	to	to	PART	_	12 keep	mark
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 keep	xcomp
14	about	about	SCONJ	_	16 taking	mark
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 taking	nsubj
16	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 quiet	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lunch	nmod:poss
18	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taking	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 tells	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tells	nsubj
21	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	parataxis
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 teacher	nmod:poss
23	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tells	obj
24	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	21 tells	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 makes	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 makes	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 teacher	det
28	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 makes	nsubj
29	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 tells	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 makes	obj
31	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 makes	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive	a older boy	a girl in Denver			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	a girl in Denver not said here			quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	take	gerund	boy	girl's lunch			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	present	girl		girl's teacher	anyway property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
5	make	present	the teacher	lunch			tree rules
6	stop	infinitive	lunch not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:4.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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