Standing by a friend, sentence 7
The boys look at her, look at each other, and drift off muttering.
Who acts: boys · What happens: look, drift off, mutter
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 (boys), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 each | fixed |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drift | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drift | cc |
| 13 | drift | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 drift | compound:prt |
| 15 | muttering | mutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 drift | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | 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 | look | present | the boys | at teacher | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at her=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | present | the boys not said here | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drift off | present | the boys not said here | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | mutter speech: assert | gerund | the boys not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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: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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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