Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity, sentence 22

A boy in Florida lent all his pocket money to a classmate who never paid it back, and when he asked, the classmate laughed at him.

Who acts: boy, classmate · What happens: lend, not pay back, ask, laugh · To what, where: pocket money, classmate, money

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 (boy, classmate), 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 lent	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 money	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 money	nmod:poss
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 money	compound
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lent	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 classmate	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 classmate	det
12	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lent	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 paid	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 paid	advmod
15	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 classmate	acl:relcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 paid	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 paid	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 laughed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 laughed	cc
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 asked	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 asked	nsubj
22	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 laughed	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asked	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 classmate	det
25	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 laughed	nsubj
26	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lent	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 laughed	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lend	past	a boy in Florida	boy's pocket money	a classmate		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to classmate=Recipient
2	not pay back	past	a classmate	money			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
3	ask speech: ask	past	boy				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	laugh	past	the classmate			at boy	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.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): 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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