Jake and the head teacher, sentence 15
Jake asked, «why does everyone expect me to be the bad one?» Mr Pryce said that reputations take time to change, and promised always to ask Jake's side first.
Who acts: Jake, everyone, Mr, reputations, side · What happens: ask, expect, be, say, take, change · To what, where: Jake, bad one · Speech: someone speaks here
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, everyone, Mr, reputations), 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 | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 expect | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 expect | punct |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 expect | advmod |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 expect | aux |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 expect | nsubj |
| 8 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 expect | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 one | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 one | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 expect | xcomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 expect | punct |
| 17 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 18 | Pryce | Pryce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mr | flat |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 21 | reputations | reputation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 take | nsubj |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 change | mark |
| 25 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 time | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 promised | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 promised | cc |
| 28 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | conj |
| 29 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 28 promised | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 ask | mark |
| 31 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 promised | xcomp |
| 32 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 side | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 Jake | case |
| 34 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ask | obj |
| 35 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 ask | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Jake | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | expect in a quote | present · do-support | everyone | Jake | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Jake not said here | the bad one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Mr | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take | present | reputations | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | change | to-infinitive | reputations not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | promise speech: promise | past | Jake not said here | always property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jake's side | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:15.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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