Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 0
An older boy grabbed Sam's arm by the lockers and squeezed hard, and wouldn't let go.
Who acts: older boy · What happens: grab, squeeze, not let, go · To what, where: arm
This is a sentence of the lesson «Self-defence or just stupid?» 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 (older boy), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 arm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Sam | case |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbed | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 lockers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lockers | det |
| 10 | lockers | locker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grabbed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 squeezed | cc |
| 12 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grabbed | conj |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 squeezed | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 let | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 let | advmod |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 grabbed | conj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grabbed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | a older boy | Sam's arm | by the lockers | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 2 | squeeze | past | a older boy not said here | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not let | would | a older boy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | a older boy not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:0.
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): R1-cc-next ×2. 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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