Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 9

Tom's first sorry went badly: he said «I didn't mean it» and laughed, and Lily could tell it wasn't real.

Who acts: first sorry, gran, Lily, drawing · What happens: go, say, not mean, laugh, tell, not be · To what, where: drawing · 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 (first sorry, gran, Lily, drawing), 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	4 sorry	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tom	case
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 sorry	amod
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 went	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 mean	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mean	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 mean	advmod
14	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mean	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 laughed	cc
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
21	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 tell	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 laughed	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 real	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 real	cop
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 real	advmod
27	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tell	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Tom's first sorry		badly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	gran			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not mean in a quote	past · do-support	gran	drawing		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	laugh	past	gran not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	could	Lily			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not is	past	drawing		real property	tree rules

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:9.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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