Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 7
Lily tells the dinner lady the big boys keep taking the Year 3s' crisps, and Sam drops a note in the class worry box: «Someone is getting hit in the boys' toilets.»
Who acts: Lily, big boys, Sam · What happens: tell, keep, take, drop, hit · To what, where: dinner lady, crisps, note, worry box, Someone, toilets · 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, big boys, Sam), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lady | compound |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boys | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boys | amod |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tells | ccomp |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 3s | det |
| 12 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 3s | compound |
| 13 | 3s | 3 | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 crisps | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 3s | case |
| 15 | crisps | crisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taking | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drops | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drops | cc |
| 18 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 drops | nsubj |
| 19 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tells | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 note | det |
| 21 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drops | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 box | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 box | det |
| 24 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 worry | compound |
| 25 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 box | compound |
| 26 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drops | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 drops | punct |
| 28 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 32 hit | punct |
| 29 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 hit | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 hit | aux |
| 31 | getting | get | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 hit | aux:pass |
| 32 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 drops | parataxis |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 toilets | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 boys | det |
| 35 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 toilets | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 35 boys | case |
| 37 | toilets | toilet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 hit | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 drops | punct |
| 39 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 drops | 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 | the dinner lady | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | the big boys | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | the big boys not said here | the Year 3s's crisps | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drop | present | Sam | a note | the worry box | tree rules | |||
| 5 | hit in a quote | present · progressive · passive | Someone | the boys's toilets | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in toilet=Destination |
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:7.
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. 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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