Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 19
A girl in Arizona kept pretending to faint for attention; when she really did fall and hurt her wrist, other children thought it was a joke and nobody fetched help for a while.
Who acts: girl, other children, child, nobody · What happens: keep, pretend, faint, fall, hurt, think · To what, where: wrist, joke, help · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» 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, other children, child, nobody), 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 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Arizona | case |
| 4 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 faint | mark |
| 8 | faint | faint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pretending | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 attention | case |
| 10 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 faint | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fall | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 fall | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fall | nsubj |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 fall | advmod |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fall | aux |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 thought | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hurt | cc |
| 18 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fall | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wrist | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hurt | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thought | punct |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 children | amod |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | parataxis |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 joke | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 joke | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 joke | det |
| 28 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fetched | cc |
| 30 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 31 fetched | nsubj |
| 31 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 thought | conj |
| 32 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fetched | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 while | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 while | det |
| 35 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fetched | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | a girl in Arizona | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pretend | gerund | a girl in Arizona not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | faint | to-infinitive | a girl in Arizona not said here | for attention | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | fall | past · do-support | girl | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hurt | infinitive | girl not said here | girl's wrist | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=Patient | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | other children | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | child | a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | fetch | past | nobody | help | while | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme |
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:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:19.
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. 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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