What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth, sentence 18
Her mum said «he shouldn't have pushed you» and «you started it» were both true, and neither made it OK.
Who acts: mum, Lily, you · What happens: say, not push, start, be, make · To what, where: you, wrist · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» 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 (mum, Lily, you), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 pushed | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pushed | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pushed | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 pushed | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pushed | aux |
| 9 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 pushed | obj |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 pushed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 started | cc |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 started | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 started | nsubj |
| 15 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pushed | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 started | obj |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 started | punct |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 true | cop |
| 19 | both | both | ADV | _ | 20 true | advmod |
| 20 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 made | cc |
| 23 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 24 made | advmod |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | obj |
| 26 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 made | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | 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 | say speech: assert | past | Maddie's mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not push in a quote | should · perfect | Lily | you | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start in a quote | past | you | wrist | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | both, true property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make | past | Maddie's mum not said here | wrist | neither, ok property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:18.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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