Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity, sentence 21
A girl in Leeds was bullied for months and kept quiet because the bully said it would get worse; when she told a teacher, it stopped within a week.
Who acts: bully, curiosity · What happens: bully, keep, say, get, tell, stop · To what, where: girl, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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 (bully, curiosity), 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 bullied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bullied | aux:pass |
| 6 | bullied | bully | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 months | case |
| 8 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bullied | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bullied | conj |
| 11 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kept | xcomp |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 said | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bully | det |
| 14 | bully | bully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 kept | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 get | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 bullied | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 told | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 told | nsubj |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 stopped | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 teacher | det |
| 25 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 told | iobj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 told | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 stopped | nsubj |
| 28 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bullied | parataxis |
| 29 | within | within | ADP | _ | 31 week | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 week | det |
| 31 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stopped | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bullied | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bully | past · passive | a girl in Leeds | month | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the bully | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get | would | curiosity | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | bully | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | stop | past | curiosity | week | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.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): R6-punct-agree ×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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