Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 7
Tom stared at his shoes and admitted he didn't know how to talk to her.
Who acts: Tom, gran · What happens: stare, admit, not know, talk · To what, where: Tom · 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 (Tom, 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 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stared | nsubj |
| 2 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 shoes | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stared | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 admitted | cc |
| 7 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stared | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 admitted | ccomp |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 talk | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 talk | mark |
| 14 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 talk | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | Tom | at gran's shoes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | past | Tom not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | gran | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | talk | to-infinitive | Tom | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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:7.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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