Taking too much, sentence 13

Kai called his friend's new trainers ugly because he secretly wanted them, and his friend, sad, stopped wearing them.

Who acts: Kai, friend · What happens: call, want, stop, wear · To what, where: new trainers, trainers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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, friend), 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	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trainers	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 friend	case
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trainers	amod
7	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 called	obj
8	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 called	xcomp
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 wanted	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
11	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	12 wanted	advmod
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stopped	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stopped	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friend	nmod:poss
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stopped	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sad	punct
19	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 friend	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 friend	punct
21	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
22	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 stopped	xcomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wearing	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	Kai	Kai's friend's new trainers	ugly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trainer=Recipient
2	want	past	Kai	trainers = trainer	secretly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
3	stop	past	Kai's friend			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	wear	gerund	Kai's friend not said here	trainers = trainer		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:13.

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, 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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