How to say stop, sentence 9

When another boy pretended not to hear her, she said it louder, then walked straight to Mrs Okafor.

Who acts: boy, Tom · What happens: pretend, not hear, say, walk · To what, where: Tom, stop, Mrs Okafor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How to say stop» 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 (boy, Tom), 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	SCONJ	_	4 pretended	mark
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pretended	nsubj
4	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hear	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretended	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hear	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pretended	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	obj
13	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 walked	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 walked	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 walked	advmod
16	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
17	straight	straight	ADV	_	20 Okafor	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 Okafor	case
19	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Okafor	compound
20	Okafor	Okafor	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 walked	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	pretend	past	another boy				tree rules
2	not hear	to-infinitive	another boy not said here	Tom			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Tom	stop			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	walk	past	Tom not said here		Mrs Okafor	then	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to okafor=Result

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:388-how-to-say-stop.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 ×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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