Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 0
Every morning Sam's stomach goes tight at the corner where the Station Road boys wait by the bus shelter.
Who acts: stomach, Road boys · What happens: go, wait · To what, where: corner
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sam is scared: fear is normal» 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 (stomach, Road 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Sam | case |
| 5 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 6 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goes | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 corner | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 corner | det |
| 10 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 wait | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boys | det |
| 13 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Road | compound |
| 14 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 boys | compound |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wait | nsubj |
| 16 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 corner | acl:relcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 shelter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shelter | det |
| 19 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shelter | compound |
| 20 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wait | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Sam's stomach | the corner | morning | tight property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at corner=Location | ||
| 2 | wait | present | the Road boys | by the bus shelter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by shelter=Location |
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:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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