Respect: how it is earned, sentence 8
Sam, who hates talking in front of people, spoke up in assembly about the litter in the park, and his voice shook the whole time — afterwards the class looked at him differently.
Who acts: Sam, voice, class · What happens: hate, talk, speak up, shake, look · To what, where: front, assembly
This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» 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, voice, class), 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 | 11 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hates | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 hates | nsubj |
| 4 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sam | acl:relcl |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 hates | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talking | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 front | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sam | punct |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 spoke | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 assembly | case |
| 14 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoke | obl |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 litter | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 litter | det |
| 17 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoke | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 park | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 park | det |
| 20 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 litter | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shook | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 shook | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 voice | nmod:poss |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shook | nsubj |
| 25 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spoke | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shook | obj |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 looked | punct |
| 30 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 33 looked | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 class | det |
| 32 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 looked | nsubj |
| 33 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spoke | conj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 looked | obl |
| 36 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 33 looked | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | Sam | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | talk not said to happen | gerund | Sam not said here | front of people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | speak up speech: other | past | Sam | assembly | about the litter in the park | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about litter=Topic | |||
| 4 | shake | past | Sam's voice | time | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | look | past | the class | at Sam; afterwards, differently property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
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:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:8.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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