Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments, sentence 15
Boasting about having more things makes others feel small and pushes friends away; sharing the fun brings them closer.
Who acts: Boasting, others, sharing · What happens: boast, have, make, feel, push away, share · To what, where: more things, others, friends, fun
This is a sentence of the lesson «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» 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 (Boasting, others, sharing), 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 | Boasting | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 makes | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 3 having | mark |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Boasting | advcl |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 having | obj |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 makes | obj |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 makes | xcomp |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feel | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pushes | cc |
| 11 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 small | conj |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pushes | obj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 pushes | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 brings | punct |
| 15 | sharing | share | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 brings | csubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fun | det |
| 17 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sharing | obj |
| 18 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 makes | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brings | obj |
| 20 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 brings | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | gerund | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | gerund | more things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||||
| 3 | make | present | Boasting | others | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | infinitive | others not said here | small property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | push away | present | others not said here | friends | away property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | |||
| 6 | share | gerund | the fun | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | bring | present | sharing | friends = friend | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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:292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments.lesson:15.
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 ×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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