Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 4

Lily complained at home, and her mum said: «Oh, it just means he likes you.» Lily felt nobody was listening.

Who acts: Lily, mum, it, he, nobody · What happens: complain, say, mean, like, feel, listen · To what, where: home, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» 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 (Lily, mum, it, he), 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	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 complained	nsubj
2	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 home	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 complained	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 complained	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct
12	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	16 means	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Oh	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 means	nsubj
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 means	advmod
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 likes	nsubj
18	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 means	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 likes	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 Lily	punct
22	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 felt	nsubj
23	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 complained	parataxis
24	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 listening	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 listening	aux
26	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 felt	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 complained	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	complain speech: other	past	Lily		home	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Lily's mum			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mean in a quote	present	it			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	like in a quote	present	he	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
5	feel	past	Lily			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	listen	past · progressive	nobody			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.lesson:4.

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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