Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 4
All afternoon Sam stares at his book and cannot read a single word.
Who acts: Sam · What happens: stare, not read · To what, where: single word
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), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 afternoon | det |
| 2 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stares | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stares | nsubj |
| 4 | stares | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 book | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 book | nmod:poss |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stares | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 read | cc |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 read | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 read | advmod |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stares | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 word | amod |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 read | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stares | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | present | Sam | afternoon | at Sam's book | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at book=Theme | |||
| 2 | not read | can | Sam not said here | a single word | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
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:4.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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