Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 23
A girl in Edinburgh told a new boy his lunch "stinks"; others joined in, he began skipping lunch, and he lost weight before a teacher noticed.
Who acts: girl, lunch, others, boy, teacher · What happens: tell, stink, join in, begin, skip, lose · To what, where: new boy, lunch, weight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» 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, lunch, others, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Edinburgh | case |
| 4 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boy | amod |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lunch | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stinks | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 stinks | punct |
| 12 | stinks | stink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | ccomp |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 stinks | punct |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 joined | punct |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 joined | nsubj |
| 16 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 joined | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | parataxis |
| 21 | skipping | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 began | xcomp |
| 22 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 skipping | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lost | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lost | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lost | nsubj |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 began | conj |
| 27 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | obj |
| 28 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 31 noticed | mark |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 teacher | det |
| 30 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 noticed | nsubj |
| 31 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lost | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | 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 | tell speech: assert | past | a girl in Edinburgh | a new boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stink in a quote | present | boy's lunch | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | join in | past | others | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | boy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | skip | gerund | boy not said here | lunch | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Agent | ||||
| 6 | lose | past | boy | weight | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | notice | past | a teacher | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:23.
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, 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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