Standing by a friend, sentence 23
Bullies often stop when the person they pick on is not alone.
Who acts: Bullies, person · What happens: stop, pick on, not be · To what, where: person
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 (Bullies, person), 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 | Bullies | bully | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 stop | advmod |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 alone | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 alone | nsubj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pick | nsubj |
| 8 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 person | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 pick | compound:prt |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 alone | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 alone | advmod |
| 12 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stop | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Bullies | often property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pick on | present | Bullies = bully | the person not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | the person | alone property | 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:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:23.
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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