Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 13
She stands up and says the Station Road boy did not start the fight — her own friend Kieran did.
Who acts: Maddie, Road boy · What happens: stand up, say, not start · To what, where: fight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» 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 (Maddie, Road boy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stands | nsubj |
| 2 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 stands | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 says | cc |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stands | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 7 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Road | compound |
| 8 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 boy | compound |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 start | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 start | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 start | advmod |
| 12 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fight | det |
| 14 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 start | obj |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friend | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 friend | amod |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 did | nsubj |
| 19 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 friend | appos |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 start | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | present | Maddie | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Maddie not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not start | past · do-support | the Road boy | the fight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:13.
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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