The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 8
Example: a boy in Alaska tells his friend not to rub snow on her frozen cheeks.
Who acts: boy · What happens: tell, not rub, freeze · To what, where: friend, snow, frozen cheeks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» 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 | _ | 7 tells | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tells | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Alaska | case |
| 6 | Alaska | Alaska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | nmod |
| 7 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Example | appos |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tells | obj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 rub | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 rub | mark |
| 12 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tells | xcomp |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rub | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 cheeks | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 cheeks | amod |
| 17 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rub | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | a boy in Alaska | boy's friend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not rub not said to happen | to-infinitive | a boy in Alaska not said here | snow | friend's frozen cheeks | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent snow=Theme on cheek=Destination | |||
| 3 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: 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:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:8.
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, R8-pos-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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