Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 5
Jake, on the other hand, told the head he had hit a boy «in self-defence».
Who acts: Jake · What happens: tell, hit · To what, where: head, other hand, boy, self defence · 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), 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 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hand | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hand | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | amod |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jake | punct |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hit | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hit | aux |
| 13 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 told | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hit | obj |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 defence | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 defence | case |
| 18 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 defence | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 self | punct |
| 20 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hit | obl |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 defence | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | 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 | tell speech: assert | past | Jake | the head | the other hand | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent head=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | hit | past · perfect | Jake | a boy | self defence | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent boy=Theme in defence=Destination |
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:5.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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