Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 6
At the same time Tom's gran asked him why he kept pulling the girl's hair.
Who acts: gran · What happens: ask, keep, pull · To what, where: him, hair
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 (gran), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 5 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gran | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Tom | case |
| 7 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 kept | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kept | nsubj |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | advcl |
| 13 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 kept | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hair | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 girl | case |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulling | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Tom's gran | him = he | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | keep | past | gran | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pull | gerund | gran not said here | the girl's hair | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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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