Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 25

Not joining in when a nasty name goes round is a simple way to stop it spreading.

Who acts: nasty name, joining · What happens: not join in, go round, be, stop, spread · To what, where: simple way, name

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 (nasty name, joining), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 joining	advmod
2	joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 way	csubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	2 joining	compound:prt
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 goes	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 name	det
6	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 name	amod
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	nsubj
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 joining	advcl
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 goes	advmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 way	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 stop	mark
15	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 way	acl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stop	obj
17	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 stop	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not join in	gerund				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	go round	present	a nasty name		round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	joining	a simple way		tree rules
4	stop	to-infinitive		name		tree rules
5	spread	gerund				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:25.

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): 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.

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