Walking away, sentence 16
In PE Jake was so angry that he stormed off to the changing rooms instead of throwing the ball at Freddie; the PE teacher followed him, said leaving was better than hurting someone, and they talked.
Who acts: PE Jake, Jake, PE teacher, leaving, rooms · What happens: be, storm off, throw, follow, say, leave · To what, where: ball, Freddie, Jake, someone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking away» 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 (PE Jake, Jake, PE teacher, leaving), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Jake | case |
| 2 | PE | pe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Jake | compound |
| 3 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 stormed | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stormed | nsubj |
| 9 | stormed | storm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 stormed | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 rooms | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rooms | det |
| 13 | changing | changing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rooms | compound |
| 14 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stormed | obl |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 throwing | mark |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stormed | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ball | det |
| 19 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 throwing | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 Freddie | case |
| 21 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 throwing | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 followed | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 teacher | det |
| 24 | PE | pe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 teacher | compound |
| 25 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 followed | nsubj |
| 26 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 followed | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 followed | conj |
| 30 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 better | csubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 better | cop |
| 32 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 said | ccomp |
| 33 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 34 hurting | mark |
| 34 | hurting | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 better | advcl |
| 35 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 hurting | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 talked | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 talked | cc |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 talked | nsubj |
| 39 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | PE Jake | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | storm off | past | Jake | to the changing rooms | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 3 | throw | gerund | Jake not said here | the ball | Freddie | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ball=Theme at freddie=Destination | |||
| 4 | follow | past | the PE teacher | Jake | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the PE teacher not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | leave | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | is | past | leaving | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | hurt | gerund | leaving not said here | someone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient | ||||
| 9 | talk | past | rooms = room | vn talk-37.5 «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:371-walking-away.lesson:16.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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