Tests, exams and mistakes, sentence 17

A boy in Ohio stayed up nearly all night cramming before a big test; next morning he was so tired he could not remember things he knew well, and he did worse than in practice.

Who acts: boy · What happens: stay up, cram, be, not remember, know, do · To what, where: big test, things

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tests, exams and mistakes» 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 stayed	compound:prt
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	9 night	advmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	obl:unmarked
10	cramming	cram	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stayed	advcl
11	before	before	ADP	_	14 test	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 test	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 test	amod
14	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cramming	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 stayed	punct
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 morning	amod
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tired	obl:unmarked
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tired	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tired	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 tired	advmod
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stayed	parataxis
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 remember	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 remember	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 remember	advmod
25	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tired	ccomp
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 remember	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 knew	nsubj
28	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 things	acl:relcl
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 knew	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 did	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 did	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 did	nsubj
33	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 remember	conj
34	worse	badly	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 did	advmod
35	than	than	ADP	_	37 practice	case
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 practice	case
37	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 did	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay up	past	a boy in Ohio			night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cram	gerund	a boy in Ohio not said here		a big test			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme before test=Destination
3	is	past	boy			morning	tired property	tree rules
4	not remember	could	boy	things				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
5	know	past	boy	things not said here			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
6	do	past	boy				than practice; badly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.lesson:17.

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): 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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