Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 13
Sam remembers the swimming trip: he was the only boy who wouldn't do the cannonball off the high board, and he felt awful.
Who acts: Sam, only boy · What happens: remember, be, not do, feel · To what, where: swimming trip, only boy, cannonball
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 (Sam, only boy), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 remembers | nsubj |
| 2 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trip | det |
| 4 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trip | compound |
| 5 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remembers | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 boy | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 boy | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 boy | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 10 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boy | amod |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trip | conj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 do | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 do | advmod |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 boy | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cannonball | det |
| 17 | cannonball | cannonball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 board | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 board | det |
| 20 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 board | amod |
| 21 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 felt | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 felt | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembers | conj |
| 26 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 felt | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | Sam | the swimming trip and the only boy | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent trip=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Sam | the only boy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not do | would | the only boy | the cannonball | off the high board | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cannonball=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | feel | past | Sam | awful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:13.
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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