Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 11
Jake gets called «Thicko» because he can't sit still and reads slowly.
Who acts: Jake · What happens: call, not sit, read · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» 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), 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 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Thicko | punct |
| 5 | Thicko | Thicko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 Thicko | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 sit | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sit | nsubj |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 sit | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 sit | advmod |
| 11 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | advcl |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 sit | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reads | cc |
| 14 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sit | conj |
| 15 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 14 reads | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 2 | not sit | can | Jake | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | read | present | Jake not said here | slowly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:11.
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 ×4, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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