Standing by a friend, sentence 3

Later Freddie is blamed for starting a fight he didn't start, and Sam goes with him to the head teacher to say what he saw.

Who acts: Freddie, Sam · What happens: blame, start, not start, go, say, see · To what, where: Freddie, fight · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Freddie, 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	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 blamed	advmod
2	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 blamed	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blamed	aux:pass
4	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 starting	mark
6	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 blamed	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fight	det
8	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starting	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 start	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 start	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 start	advmod
12	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fight	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 goes	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 goes	cc
15	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 goes	nsubj
16	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blamed	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 goes	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 teacher	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 teacher	det
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 teacher	compound
22	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 goes	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 say	mark
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 goes	advcl
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 saw	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 say	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blamed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blame	present · passive		Freddie	late property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	start	gerund		a fight		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality
3	not start	past · do-support	Freddie	a fight not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality
4	go	present	Sam		with Freddie; to the head teacher	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to teacher=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Sam not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see	past	Sam			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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:3.

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, R8-pos-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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