Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 6

On Monday he pretends to have a tummy ache so he won't have to walk past the rec (the park and playing field) where the big boys play.

Who acts: Sam, big boys · What happens: pretend, have, not have, walk, play · To what, where: tummy ache, rec

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, big 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 Monday	case
2	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pretends	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pretends	nsubj
4	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretends	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ache	det
8	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ache	compound
9	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 have	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
12	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 have	advmod
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 walk	mark
16	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	xcomp
17	past	past	ADP	_	19 rec	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rec	det
19	rec	rec	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walk	obl
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 park	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 park	det
22	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rec	appos
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 field	cc
24	playing	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 field	compound
25	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 park	conj
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 park	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 play	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 boys	det
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 boys	amod
30	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 play	nsubj
31	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 rec	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pretends	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pretend	present	Sam			monday	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	Sam not said here	a tummy ache			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ache=Patient
3	not have	future	Sam				tree rules
4	walk	to-infinitive	Sam not said here		the rec		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past rec=Trajectory
5	play	present	the big boys				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:6.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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