Our street against theirs, sentence 3
Sam was told to be the «lookout» for a street fight — and spent the whole evening feeling sick.
Who acts: Sam · What happens: tell, be, spend, feel · To what, where: Sam, lookout · 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 (Sam), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux:pass |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 lookout | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lookout | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lookout | det |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 lookout | punct |
| 8 | lookout | lookout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | xcomp |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 lookout | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 fight | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fight | det |
| 12 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fight | compound |
| 13 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lookout | nmod |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 spent | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spent | cc |
| 16 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 evening | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 evening | amod |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spent | obj |
| 20 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 spent | advcl |
| 21 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 feeling | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | Sam | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Sam not said here | the lookout | for a street fight | tree rules | |||
| 3 | spend | past | evening | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feel | gerund | sick property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:3.
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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