What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth, sentence 22
Sam was not even fighting, just watching, and a flying elbow gave him a fat lip for his cousin's wedding photos.
Who acts: Sam, flying elbow · What happens: not fight, watch, fly, give · To what, where: fat lip, Sam
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 (Sam, flying elbow), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fighting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fighting | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fighting | advmod |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 fighting | advmod |
| 5 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watching | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 watching | advmod |
| 8 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 fighting | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 elbow | det |
| 12 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 elbow | amod |
| 13 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fighting | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lip | det |
| 17 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lip | amod |
| 18 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 photos | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 21 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 photos | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 cousin | case |
| 23 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 photos | compound |
| 24 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lip | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fighting | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fight | past · progressive | Sam | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | Sam not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | give | past | a flying elbow | a fat lip | Sam | for Sam's cousin's wedding photos | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lip=Theme for photo=Asset |
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:22.
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 ×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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