Lily, the calm «princess», sentence 22
When a fight starts, the most helpful thing a bystander can do is get an adult, not watch or cheer.
Who acts: fight, bystander, helpful thing · What happens: start, do, be, not watch, cheer · To what, where: helpful thing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» 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 (fight, bystander, helpful thing), 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 | When | when | ADV | _ | 4 starts | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fight | det |
| 3 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 starts | nsubj |
| 4 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 starts | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 helpful | advmod |
| 8 | helpful | helpful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | nsubj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bystander | det |
| 11 | bystander | bystander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thing | acl:relcl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | cop |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 adult | det |
| 17 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 watch | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 watch | advmod |
| 20 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 get | conj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 cheer | cc |
| 22 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 watch | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | a fight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | can | a bystander | the helpful thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the helpful thing | get property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not watch | infinitive | the helpful thing not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cheer | infinitive | the helpful thing not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:22.
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): 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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