Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 24
Name-calling often says more about the person doing it than about the person being called names.
Who acts: Name calling, person · What happens: say, do, call · To what, where: more, calling, names · 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 (Name calling, person), 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 | Name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calling | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Name | punct |
| 3 | calling | calling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 says | advmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 says | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 person | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 person | det |
| 9 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 more | obl |
| 10 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 person | acl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 doing | obj |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 person | case |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 person | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | obl |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 more | conj |
| 18 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Name calling | more | often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | |||
| 2 | do | gerund | the person not said here | calling | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund · passive | Name calling not said here | names | than the person | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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:24.
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 ×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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