Walking away, sentence 17
When a boy kept pulling Lily's ponytail, she walked to the other side of the playground, and it stopped properly when the teacher on duty noticed and had a word with him.
Who acts: boy, teacher, ponytail · What happens: keep, pull, walk, stop, notice, have · To what, where: ponytail, word
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 (boy, teacher, ponytail), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 kept | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 walked | advcl |
| 5 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ponytail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Lily | case |
| 8 | ponytail | ponytail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulling | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 side | amod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 playground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 playground | det |
| 18 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stopped | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stopped | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stopped | nsubj |
| 22 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 walked | conj |
| 23 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 22 stopped | advmod |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 noticed | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 teacher | det |
| 26 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 noticed | nsubj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 duty | case |
| 28 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 teacher | nmod |
| 29 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stopped | advcl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 had | cc |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 noticed | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 word | det |
| 33 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | a boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | a boy not said here | Lily's ponytail | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ponytail=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | teacher | to the other side of the playground result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | ponytail | properly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | notice | past | the teacher on duty | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | have | past | the teacher on duty not said here | a word | with boy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
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:17.
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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