Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 3

A few weeks later, bored and lazy after school, he was egged on by older boys and threw a firecracker at old Mrs Doyle's door.

Who acts: older boys · What happens: egg on, throw · To what, where: Nathan, firecracker, old door

This is a sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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 (older boys), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 weeks	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weeks	amod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 later	obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 egged	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 egged	punct
6	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 egged	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lazy	cc
8	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bored	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 school	case
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bored	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 egged	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 egged	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 egged	aux:pass
14	egged	egg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 egged	compound:prt
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 boys	case
17	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 boys	amod
18	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 egged	obl:agent
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 threw	cc
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 egged	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 firecracker	det
22	firecracker	firecracker	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threw	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	28 door	case
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 door	amod
25	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 door	nmod:poss
26	Doyle	Doyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Mrs	flat
27	's	's	PART	_	25 Mrs	case
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threw	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 egged	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	egg on	past · passive	older boys	Nathan				late property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	throw	past	older boys not said here	a firecracker		Mrs's old door			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent firecracker=Theme at door=Destination

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:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:3.

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 ×3. 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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