Walking away, sentence 5
Jake, who fights about everything, heard a boy call his football team rubbish.
Who acts: Jake, boy · What happens: fight, hear, call · To what, where: boy, football team · 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 (Jake, boy), 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 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fights | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 fights | nsubj |
| 4 | fights | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Jake | acl:relcl |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 everything | case |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 fights | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jake | punct |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 heard | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 team | nmod:poss |
| 13 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 team | compound |
| 14 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 call | obj |
| 15 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 call | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present | Jake | about everything | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about everything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Jake | a boy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | infinitive | a boy not said here | boy's football team | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent team=Recipient |
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:5.
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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