Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom, sentence 20
A girl in Texas got lost at a fair and hid because she was frightened; it took much longer to find her than if she had asked a staff member.
Who acts: girl · What happens: lose, hide, frighten, take, find, ask · To what, where: girl, fair, water, staff member
This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom» 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 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | aux:pass |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 fair | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fair | det |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lost | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hid | cc |
| 11 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | conj |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 frightened | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 frightened | aux:pass |
| 15 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 hid | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | expl |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | parataxis |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 longer | advmod |
| 20 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 find | mark |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 took | csubj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 find | obj |
| 24 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 28 asked | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 asked | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 asked | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 asked | aux |
| 28 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 longer | advcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 member | det |
| 30 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 member | compound |
| 31 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 asked | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | a girl in Texas | a fair | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | frighten | past · passive | girl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | take | past | water | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent long=Theme | |||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | girl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | girl | a staff member | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent member=Recipient |
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:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.lesson:20.
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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