Prices, change, borrowing and lending, sentence 4
A boy in Bristol is cornered by an older child who demands his money; he hands it over because he feels unsafe, then tells a teacher straight away, because this is bullying or theft and adults must stop it.
Who acts: older child, money, this, adults · What happens: corner, demand, hand over, feel, tell, be · To what, where: boy, money, amount, teacher, bullying · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» 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 child, money, this, adults), 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 | 6 cornered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Bristol | case |
| 4 | Bristol | Bristol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cornered | aux:pass |
| 6 | cornered | corner | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 child | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 9 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cornered | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 demands | nsubj |
| 12 | demands | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 child | acl:relcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 money | nmod:poss |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 demands | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 hands | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nsubj |
| 17 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cornered | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hands | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 hands | compound:prt |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 feels | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 feels | nsubj |
| 22 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hands | advcl |
| 23 | unsafe | unsafe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 feels | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tells | punct |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 tells | advmod |
| 26 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hands | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 teacher | det |
| 28 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tells | obj |
| 29 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 30 away | advmod |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 tells | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bullying | punct |
| 32 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 bullying | mark |
| 33 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 bullying | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 bullying | cop |
| 35 | bullying | bullying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tells | advcl |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 theft | cc |
| 37 | theft | theft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bullying | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 stop | cc |
| 39 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 stop | nsubj |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 stop | aux |
| 41 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 bullying | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 stop | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cornered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | corner | present · passive | a older child | a boy in Bristol | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | present | a older child | boy's money | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme money=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | hand over | present | money | amount | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | present | money | unsafe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | money not said here | a teacher | then | away property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||
| 6 | is a | present | this | bullying or theft | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | stop | must | adults | amount | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=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:262-prices-change-and-borrowing.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): R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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