Standing by a friend, sentence 18
At the school disco a group laughs at Sam's dancing — which, to be fair, looks like a startled octopus.
Who acts: group, dancing, Sam · What happens: laugh, be, look, dance · To what, where: school disco
This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» 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 (group, dancing, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 disco | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 disco | det |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 disco | compound |
| 4 | disco | disco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughs | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 group | det |
| 6 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughs | nsubj |
| 7 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 dancing | case |
| 9 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 dancing | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Sam | case |
| 11 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughs | obl |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 looks | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 looks | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looks | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fair | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fair | cop |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 looks | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looks | punct |
| 19 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dancing | acl:relcl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 octopus | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 octopus | det |
| 22 | startled | startle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 octopus | amod |
| 23 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looks | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | a group | the school disco | at Sam's dancing | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Sam's dancing not said here | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | present | Sam's dancing | like a startled octopus | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | dance | Sam | nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:18.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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