Teasing and laughing at others, sentence 1
Maya in Denver called a girl «four-eyes» because her friends laughed.
Who acts: Maya, friends · What happens: call, laugh · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Teasing and laughing at others» 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 (Maya, friends), 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 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Denver | case |
| 3 | Denver | Denver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Maya | nmod |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obj |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 eyes | punct |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 eyes | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 four | punct |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 eyes | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 laughed | mark |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 laughed | nsubj |
| 15 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Maya in Denver | a girl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | Maya's friends | 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:346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others.lesson:1.
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, 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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