Jake and the head teacher, sentence 14
What helped him was a teacher who believed in him and a boxing club with strict rules.
Who acts: teacher · What happens: help, be, believe · To what, where: Jake, teacher
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 (teacher), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 helped | nsubj |
| 2 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 teacher | csubj |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 helped | obj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 teacher | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 teacher | det |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 believed | nsubj |
| 8 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 believed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 club | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 club | det |
| 13 | boxing | boxing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 club | compound |
| 14 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teacher | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 rules | case |
| 16 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rules | amod |
| 17 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 club | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 teacher | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | a teacher and a boxing club with strict rules | Jake | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a teacher and a boxing club with strict rules | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | believe | past | a teacher and a boxing club with strict rules | in Jake | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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: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): 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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