Breaking things and hiding the pieces, sentence 12
He joined the football club, and the older boys stopped calling.
Who acts: dog, older boys · What happens: join, stop, call · To what, where: football club · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» 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 (dog, older boys), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 joined | nsubj |
| 2 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 club | det |
| 4 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 club | compound |
| 5 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 joined | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stopped | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boys | det |
| 9 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 boys | amod |
| 10 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 joined | conj |
| 12 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stopped | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | dog | the football club | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the older boys | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | call | gerund | the older boys not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.lesson:12.
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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