Street gangs and loyalty, sentence 11
Maddie sat on her doorstep holding a tissue to her mouth and thought: «Loyal to what, exactly?»
Who acts: Maddie · What happens: sit, hold, think · To what, where: doorstep, tissue
This is a sentence of the lesson «Street gangs and loyalty» 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 (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 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 doorstep | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 doorstep | nmod:poss |
| 5 | doorstep | doorstep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 6 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 sat | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tissue | det |
| 8 | tissue | tissue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holding | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 mouth | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holding | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 Loyal | punct |
| 16 | Loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 Loyal | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Loyal | punct |
| 20 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 16 Loyal | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 Loyal | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Maddie | Maddie's doorstep | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on doorstep=Location | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | Maddie not said here | a tissue | to Maddie's mouth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tissue=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Maddie not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.lesson:11.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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