Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 12

A Station Road boy calls Maddie «a boy in a skirt», which is funny only because she has never worn a skirt in her life.

Who acts: Road boy, boy, Maddie · What happens: call, be, not wear · To what, where: Maddie, skirt, life · 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 (Road boy, boy, Maddie), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
2	Station	Station	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Road	compound
3	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boy	compound
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calls	nsubj
5	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 calls	obj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 boy	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Maddie	appos
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 skirt	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 skirt	det
12	skirt	skirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boy	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 boy	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 funny	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 funny	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 funny	cop
17	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	acl:relcl
18	only	only	ADV	_	23 worn	advmod
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 worn	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 worn	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 worn	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 worn	advmod
23	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 funny	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 skirt	det
25	skirt	skirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 worn	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 life	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 life	nmod:poss
28	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 worn	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 calls	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	present	a Road boy		Maddie			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient
2	is	present	a boy in a skirt				funny property	tree rules
3	not wear	present · perfect	Maddie	a skirt		Maddie's life		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skirt=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:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:12.

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 ×2. 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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