Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills, sentence 21

A boy in London lied about his lunch being forgotten so he could buy sweets; he felt sick all afternoon and could not think in class.

Who acts: boy · What happens: lie, forget, buy, feel, not think · To what, where: lunch, sweets, class

This is a sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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), 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	5 lied	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 London	case
4	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 lunch	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lunch	nmod:poss
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lied	obl
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 forgotten	aux:pass
10	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lunch	acl
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 buy	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 buy	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 buy	aux
14	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 forgotten	advcl
15	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 buy	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 felt	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 felt	nsubj
18	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lied	parataxis
19	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 felt	xcomp
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 afternoon	det
21	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 felt	obl:unmarked
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 think	cc
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 think	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 think	advmod
25	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 felt	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 class	case
27	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 think	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lied	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	a boy in London				about boy's lunch	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about lunch=Location
2	forget	gerund · passive		boy's lunch not said here				tree rules
3	buy	could	boy	sweets				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme
4	feel	past	boy			afternoon	sick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	not think speech: other	could	boy not said here		class			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.lesson:21.

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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