Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 18
A nickname spreads fast when other people repeat it, even if it started as a joke.
Who acts: nickname, other people · What happens: spread, repeat, start · To what, where: nickname
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 (nickname, other people), 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 | 2 nickname | det |
| 2 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spreads | nsubj |
| 3 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 spreads | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 repeat | mark |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 repeat | nsubj |
| 8 | repeat | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spreads | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 repeat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 started | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 started | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 started | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 started | nsubj |
| 14 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spreads | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 joke | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 joke | det |
| 17 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 started | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spreads | 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 | spread | present | a nickname | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat | present | other people | nickname | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | start a condition, not said to happen | past | nickname | as a joke | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:18.
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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