Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities, sentence 22

A girl in London was stared at and laughed at for her birthmark every day; she started to hide from other children and dreaded school.

Who acts: girl · What happens: stare, laugh, start, hide, dread · To what, where: girl, birthmark, school

This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities» 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), 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	6 stared	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 London	case
4	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stared	aux:pass
6	stared	stare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	6 stared	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laughed	cc
9	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stared	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 birthmark	case
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 birthmark	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 birthmark	nmod:poss
13	birthmark	birthmark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laughed	obl
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laughed	obl:unmarked
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 started	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 started	nsubj
18	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stared	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hide	mark
20	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 started	xcomp
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 children	case
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 children	amod
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hide	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dreaded	cc
25	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 started	conj
26	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dreaded	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stared	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past · passive		a girl in London				tree rules
2	laugh	past			girl's birthmark	day		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	start	past	girl					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	hide	to-infinitive	girl not said here				from other children	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from child=Beneficiary
5	dread	past	girl not said here	school				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer school=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.

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:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.lesson:22.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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