Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 8
Then Sam asks Mrs Okafor, in front of the whole class: «Why do boys who fight get a detention, but girls who fight just get a talking-to?» The class goes silent.
Who acts: Sam, boys, girls, class · What happens: ask, fight, get, go · To what, where: Mrs, front, detention, talking · 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 (Sam, boys, girls, class), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asks | advmod |
| 2 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | obj |
| 5 | Okafor | Okafor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mrs | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 front | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 class | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 class | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 class | amod |
| 12 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 front | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 15 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 get | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 17 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 get | nsubj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fight | nsubj |
| 19 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 boys | acl:relcl |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asks | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 detention | det |
| 22 | detention | detention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 get | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 get | cc |
| 25 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 get | nsubj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 fight | nsubj |
| 27 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 girls | acl:relcl |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 29 get | advmod |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asks | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 talking | det |
| 31 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 get | obj |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 to | punct |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 talking | acl:relcl |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| 36 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 class | det |
| 37 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 goes | nsubj |
| 38 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asks | parataxis |
| 39 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 goes | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Sam | Mrs | front of the whole class | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mrs=Recipient | ||
| 2 | fight in a quote | present | boys | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · do-support | boys | a detention | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer detention=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fight in a quote | present | girls | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get in a quote | infinitive | girls | a talking | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer talking=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | go | present | the class | silent property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:8.
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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