Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 1
In the dinner queue Jake shouts at him, and Sam's heart thumps so hard that he drops his whole tray of beans.
Who acts: Jake, heart · What happens: shout, thump, drop · To what, where: dinner queue, whole tray
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 (Jake, heart), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 queue | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queue | det |
| 3 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 queue | compound |
| 4 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shouts | obl |
| 5 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shouts | nsubj |
| 6 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shouts | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thumps | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thumps | cc |
| 11 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Sam | case |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thumps | nsubj |
| 14 | thumps | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shouts | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 hard | advmod |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADV | _ | 14 thumps | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 drops | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drops | nsubj |
| 19 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 thumps | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tray | nmod:poss |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tray | amod |
| 22 | tray | tray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drops | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 beans | case |
| 24 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tray | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shouts | 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 | shout speech: express | present | Jake | the dinner queue | at stomach | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | thump | present | Sam's heart | hard property | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drop | present | heart | stomach's whole tray of beans | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tray=Theme |
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:1.
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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