Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 14

Jake tells the head the real reason he hit someone: the boy said something nasty about his mum, who is in hospital.

Who acts: Jake, boy, mum · What happens: tell, hit, say, be · To what, where: real reason, head, someone, something, hospital · 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 (Jake, boy, mum), 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	Jake	jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 head	det
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reason	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reason	amod
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hit	nsubj
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reason	acl:relcl
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 hit	obj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 someone	acl:relcl
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 said	obj
16	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 something	amod
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 mum	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mum	nmod:poss
19	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nasty	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hospital	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 hospital	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 hospital	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 hospital	case
24	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mum	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Jake	the real reason	the head		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent head=Recipient reason=Topic
2	hit	past	Jake	someone			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme someone=Co-Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the boy	something			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
4	is	present	Jake's mum			hospital	tree rules

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:14.

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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