Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities, sentence 24
Teasing about how someone looks can make them anxious and lonely for years.
Who acts: someone, Teasing · What happens: tease, look, make · To what, where: snack
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 (someone, Teasing), 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 | Teasing | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 make | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 5 looks | mark |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 looks | advmod |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Teasing | advcl |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 make | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lonely | cc |
| 11 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 anxious | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 anxious | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | gerund | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | look | present | someone | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make | can | Teasing | snack | anxious property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
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:24.
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): no change. 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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