Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 15
Freddie had been called names by Jake for a whole term; one day he snapped and hit Jake.
Who acts: Jake, Freddie · What happens: call, snap, hit · To what, where: Freddie, Jake · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jake, Freddie), 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 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Jake | case |
| 7 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl:agent |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 term | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 term | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 term | amod |
| 11 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 snapped | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 day | nummod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snapped | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 snapped | nsubj |
| 16 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hit | cc |
| 18 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 snapped | conj |
| 19 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hit | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | 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 | call speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | Jake | Freddie | for a whole term | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for term=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | snap | past | Freddie | day | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | hit | past | Freddie not said here | Jake | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme jake=Co-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: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. 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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