Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 21

When a boy kept pinching Lily's arm on the bus, she said clearly, «Stop pinching me,» so the whole bus heard.

Who acts: boy, Lily, whole bus · What happens: keep, pinch, say, stop, heard · To what, where: arm, Lily · 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 (boy, Lily, whole bus), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 kept	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
5	pinching	pinch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 arm	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Lily	case
8	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pinching	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bus	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bus	det
11	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pinching	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Stop	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 Stop	punct
18	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
19	pinching	pinch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 Stop	xcomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 pinching	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Stop	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 Stop	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	27 heard	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bus	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bus	amod
26	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	nsubj
27	heard	heard	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a boy			tree rules
2	pinch	gerund	a boy not said here	Lily's arm	on the bus	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent arm=Experiencer on bus=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Lily		clearly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stop in a quote	infinitive				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	pinch in a quote	gerund		Lily		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	heard	past	the whole bus			tree rules

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:21.

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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