Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 16
Lily tells her friends she does not find the ponytail tugging cute — she finds it annoying.
Who acts: Lily, ponytail · What happens: tell, not find, tug, find · To what, where: friends, ponytail, friend · 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 (Lily, ponytail), 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 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tells | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 find | advmod |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tells | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ponytail | det |
| 10 | ponytail | ponytail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | tugging | tug | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ponytail | acl |
| 12 | cute | cute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tugging | xcomp |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 finds | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 finds | nsubj |
| 15 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 finds | obj |
| 17 | annoying | annoying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 finds | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Lily | Lily's friends | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not find | present · do-support | Lily | the ponytail | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ponytail=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tug | gerund | the ponytail not said here | cute property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | present | Lily | friend | annoying property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:16.
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): R6-punct-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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