Our street against theirs, sentence 16
Taking someone's ball and refusing to give it back is stealing, even if it is called a «pinch» or a joke.
Who acts: Taking · What happens: take, refuse, not give back, steal, call · To what, where: ball · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» 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 (Taking), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 stealing | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 ball | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 someone | case |
| 4 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 refusing | cc |
| 6 | refusing | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Taking | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 give | mark |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 refusing | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADP | _ | 8 give | compound:prt |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stealing | aux |
| 12 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 called | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 called | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stealing | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pinch | det |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 pinch | punct |
| 21 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 pinch | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 joke | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 joke | det |
| 25 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pinch | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stealing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | someone's ball | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | |||||
| 2 | refuse | gerund | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not give back | to-infinitive | ball | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | steal | present · progressive | Taking | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | call a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | ball | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:16.
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 ×1, 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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