Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted, sentence 21
A boy in Texas skipped a lesson because a friend pushed him to; nobody knew where he was, the school called his mum, and she left work frightened.
Who acts: boy, friend, nobody, money · What happens: skip, push, know, be, left · To what, where: lesson, boy, work
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted» 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, friend, nobody, money), 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 skipped | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lesson | det |
| 7 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skipped | obj |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 pushed | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 friend | det |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pushed | nsubj |
| 11 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 skipped | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pushed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 pushed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 15 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 skipped | parataxis |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 called | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 called | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 called | cop |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 called | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 school | det |
| 22 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 called | nsubj |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 knew | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mum | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 called | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 left | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 work | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 left | nsubj |
| 29 | left | left | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 called | conj |
| 30 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 left | obj |
| 31 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 left | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 skipped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | past | a boy in Texas | a lesson | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Agent | ||||
| 2 | push | past | a friend | boy | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | friend | call property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | left | past | money | work | frightened property | tree rules |
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:335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust.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, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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