Teasing and laughing at others, sentence 5
Maya's friend Josh copied the way a boy talks with his stammer, and everyone laughed.
Who acts: friend, boy, everyone · What happens: copy, talk, laugh, stammer · To what, where: way
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 (friend, boy, everyone), 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 | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Maya | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 copied | nsubj |
| 4 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | appos |
| 5 | copied | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 copied | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 talks | nsubj |
| 10 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | acl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 stammer | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 stammer | nmod:poss |
| 13 | stammer | stammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 talks | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laughed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laughed | cc |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 laughed | nsubj |
| 17 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 copied | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 copied | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | past | Maya's friend | the way | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | a boy | the way not said here | with boy's stammer | tree rules | |||
| 3 | laugh | past | everyone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stammer | boy | nom stammer «state transitive»: poss=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:5.
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): 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.
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