Questions, group work and the adults at school, sentence 18
A boy in Texas called Leo did not understand fractions but was too embarrassed to ask; by the end of the year he could not follow any of the lessons that built on them.
Who acts: boy, lessons · What happens: call, not understand, be, ask, not follow, build · To what, where: boy, Leo, fractions, any · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» 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, lessons), 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 | 9 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 boy | acl |
| 6 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 understand | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 understand | advmod |
| 9 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | fractions | fraction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 understand | obj |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 embarrassed | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 embarrassed | cop |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 embarrassed | advmod |
| 14 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 understand | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ask | mark |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 embarrassed | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 follow | punct |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 end | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 follow | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 year | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 year | det |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 end | nmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 follow | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 follow | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 follow | advmod |
| 27 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 understand | parataxis |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 follow | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 lessons | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lessons | det |
| 31 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 any | nmod |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 built | nsubj |
| 33 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 lessons | acl:relcl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 built | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a boy in Texas not said here | Leo | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leo=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not understand | past · do-support | a boy in Texas | fractions | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fraction=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a boy in Texas not said here | embarrassed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | a boy in Texas not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not follow | could | boy | any | by the end of the year | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent any=Theme by end=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | build | past | the lessons | on fractions = fraction | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on they=Source |
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:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.lesson:18.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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