Jake, always in bruises, sentence 14
When nobody was looking, he asked Sam for help with spelling, embarrassed that a tough boy needed it; after some sessions with Sam at the library, his spellings went from 3 out of 10 to 8.
Who acts: nobody, Jake, tough boy, spellings · What happens: look, ask, embarrass, need, go, spell · To what, where: Sam, spelling, 3
This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake, always in bruises» 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 (nobody, Jake, tough boy, spellings), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 looking | mark |
| 2 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 help | case |
| 10 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 spelling | case |
| 12 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 help | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 embarrassed | punct |
| 14 | embarrassed | embarrass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 needed | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 17 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 needed | nsubj |
| 19 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 embarrassed | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 needed | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 sessions | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 sessions | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 sessions | det |
| 24 | sessions | session | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 went | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Sam | case |
| 26 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sessions | nmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 library | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 library | det |
| 29 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sessions | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 spellings | nmod:poss |
| 32 | spellings | spelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 went | nsubj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | parataxis |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 3 | case |
| 35 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 went | obl |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 10 | case |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 10 | case |
| 38 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 3 | nmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 8 | case |
| 40 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 went | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | 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 | past · progressive | nobody | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Jake | Sam | for help with spelling | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sam=Recipient | |||
| 3 | embarrass | participle | Jake not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | need | past | a tough boy | spelling | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Jake's spellings | 3 out 10 | after some sessions with Sam at the library | to 8 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from 3=Initial_Location to 8=Destination | ||
| 6 | spell | Jake | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=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:372-jake-always-in-bruises.lesson:14.
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 ×2. 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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