Jake and the head teacher, sentence 10
Jake was embarrassed at first, but the more he used it, the less he fought.
Who acts: Jake · What happens: be, use, fight · To what, where: card
This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» 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), 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 | 3 embarrassed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 embarrassed | cop |
| 3 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 first | case |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 embarrassed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 used | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 more | det |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 used | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 used | nsubj |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 embarrassed | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 used | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 less | det |
| 15 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 fought | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fought | nsubj |
| 17 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 used | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 embarrassed | 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 | Jake | embarrassed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | past | Jake | card | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fight | past | Jake | less property | vn battle-36.4-1 «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:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:10.
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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