Rude words at the table, sentence 2

He sat on the stairs feeling silly — he did not even know exactly what it meant.

Who acts: Charlie, fork · What happens: sit, feel, not know, mean · To what, where: stairs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rude words at the table» 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 (Charlie, fork), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 stairs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stairs	det
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
6	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
7	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feeling	xcomp
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 feeling	conj
14	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	15 what	advmod
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 meant	obj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 meant	nsubj
17	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 know	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Charlie	the stairs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stair=Location
2	feel	gerund	Charlie not said here		silly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	not know	past · do-support	Charlie			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	mean	past	fork			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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:354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.lesson:2.

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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