Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 5
At her first confession Grace was so ashamed of one thing — she had pinched her little brother hard and made him cry — that she left it out.
Who acts: Grace, coin, Boston · What happens: be, pinch, make, cry, leave out, confess · To what, where: first confession, little brother, coin, thing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» 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 (Grace, coin, Boston), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 confession | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 confession | nmod:poss |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 confession | amod |
| 4 | confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ashamed | obl |
| 5 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ashamed | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ashamed | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 ashamed | advmod |
| 8 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thing | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 thing | nummod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ashamed | obl |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 pinched | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pinched | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pinched | aux |
| 15 | pinched | pinch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 ashamed | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brother | amod |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pinched | obj |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 pinched | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pinched | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | obj |
| 23 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | xcomp |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 left | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 left | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | nsubj |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ashamed | advcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | obj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 left | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Grace | Boston's first confession | of one thing; ashamed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pinch | past · perfect | Grace | Grace's little brother | hard property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | past | Grace not said here | coin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | infinitive | coin not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | leave out | past | Grace | thing | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | confess | Boston | nom confession «communication 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:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.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): R8-pos-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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