Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments, sentence 6
It is often the start of creativity: on a rainy afternoon a boy in Manchester turned a sofa and two blankets into a castle and wrote a story about it.
Who acts: boredom, boy · What happens: be, turn, write · To what, where: start, sofa, castle, story
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 (boredom, boy), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 start | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 start | cop |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 start | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 start | det |
| 5 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 creativity | case |
| 7 | creativity | creativity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 start | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 start | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 afternoon | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 afternoon | det |
| 11 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 afternoon | amod |
| 12 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Manchester | case |
| 16 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 boy | nmod |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 start | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sofa | det |
| 19 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 blankets | cc |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 blankets | nummod |
| 22 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sofa | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 castle | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 castle | det |
| 25 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wrote | cc |
| 27 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 turned | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 story | det |
| 29 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wrote | obj |
| 30 | about | about | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 story | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 start | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | boredom | the start | of creativity; often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | past | a boy in Manchester | a sofa and two blankets | a castle | afternoon | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sofa=Theme into castle=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | write | past | a boy in Manchester not said here | a story | about boredom | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about it=Topic |
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:6.
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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