Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 18
And when a boy grabbed Maddie's hood and dragged her backwards, she pushed him off to get free and stopped there.
Who acts: boy, Maddie · What happens: grab, drag, push off, get, stop · To what, where: hood, Maddie, boy
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 (boy, Maddie), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pushed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 grabbed | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grabbed | nsubj |
| 5 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pushed | advcl |
| 6 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hood | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Maddie | case |
| 8 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grabbed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dragged | cc |
| 10 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grabbed | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dragged | obj |
| 12 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 10 dragged | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pushed | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pushed | nsubj |
| 15 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pushed | obj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 pushed | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pushed | advcl |
| 20 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stopped | cc |
| 22 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pushed | conj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 stopped | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 pushed | 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 boy | Maddie's hood | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drag | past | a boy not said here | Maddie | backwards property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | push off | past | Maddie | boy | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Maddie not said here | free property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | Maddie not said here | there | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: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. 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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