Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 2
By Wednesday somebody has drawn a chicken on Sam's pencil case in felt tip, and when the cold wind makes his eyes water, Jake yells «Sam's crying!» across the whole playground.
Who acts: somebody, cold wind, eyes, Jake · What happens: draw, feel, make, water, yell, cry · To what, where: chicken, pencil case, whole playground · 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 (somebody, cold wind, eyes, 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 Wednesday | case |
| 2 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 drawn | obl |
| 3 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 drawn | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 drawn | aux |
| 5 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chicken | det |
| 7 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawn | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 case | case |
| 9 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 case | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Sam | case |
| 11 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 case | compound |
| 12 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawn | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tip | case |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tip | amod |
| 15 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawn | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 yells | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 yells | cc |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 makes | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wind | det |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wind | amod |
| 21 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 makes | nsubj |
| 22 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 yells | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 water | nsubj |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 makes | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 yells | punct |
| 27 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 yells | nsubj |
| 28 | yells | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 drawn | conj |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 32 crying | punct |
| 30 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 crying | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Sam | case |
| 32 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 yells | ccomp |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 crying | punct |
| 34 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 32 crying | punct |
| 35 | across | across | ADP | _ | 38 playground | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 playground | det |
| 37 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 playground | amod |
| 38 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 yells | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present · perfect | somebody | a chicken | Sam's pencil case | wednesday | in felt tip | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme on case=Destination | |
| 2 | feel | participle | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | make | present | the cold wind | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | water | wind's eyes | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | yell speech: express | present | Jake | the whole playground | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | cry speech: express in a quote | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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:2.
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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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