Leaving someone out, sentence 0
Kai in Perth teased a boy because his clothes were old, to make the others laugh.
Who acts: Kai, clothes, others · What happens: tease, be, make, laugh · To what, where: boy, others
This is a sentence of the lesson «Leaving someone out» 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 (Kai, clothes, others), 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 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 teased | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Perth | case |
| 3 | Perth | Perth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kai | nmod |
| 4 | teased | tease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teased | obj |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 old | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 old | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 old | cop |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 teased | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 teased | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 others | det |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 make | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 teased | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | past | Kai in Perth | a boy | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Kai's clothes | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Kai in Perth not said here | the others | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | laugh | infinitive | the others not said here | 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:347-leaving-someone-out.lesson:0.
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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