Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments, sentence 22
A boy in New Zealand felt so jealous of the new baby that he stopped eating and talking at school; when he finally told his dad, they started special time together and he felt much better.
Who acts: boy, cigarette · What happens: feel, stop, eat, talk, tell, start · To what, where: school, dad · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy, cigarette), 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 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Zealand | case |
| 4 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Zealand | compound |
| 5 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 jealous | advmod |
| 8 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 felt | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 baby | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 baby | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 baby | amod |
| 12 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jealous | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 stopped | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stopped | nsubj |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 jealous | advcl |
| 16 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 stopped | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 talking | cc |
| 18 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 eating | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 school | case |
| 20 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 talking | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 told | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | nsubj |
| 24 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 25 told | advmod |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 felt | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 dad | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 told | iobj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 started | punct |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 started | nsubj |
| 30 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 told | parataxis |
| 31 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 time | amod |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 started | obj |
| 33 | together | together | ADV | _ | 30 started | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 felt | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 felt | nsubj |
| 36 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 started | conj |
| 37 | much | much | ADV | _ | 38 better | advmod |
| 38 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 felt | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | a boy in New Zealand | jealous property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | boy | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | boy not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | boy not said here | school | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | boy | boy's dad | finally property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient | |||
| 6 | start | past | cigarette | time | together property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | feel | past | boy | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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.
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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 ×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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