Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 1
Kieran from her own street stared at her in class and went red as a postbox whenever she looked back.
Who acts: Kieran · What happens: stare, go, look back · To what, where: Maddie
This is a sentence of the lesson «Boys who look at Maddie oddly» 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 (Kieran), 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 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stared | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 street | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 street | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 street | amod |
| 5 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kieran | nmod |
| 6 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 class | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stared | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 class | case |
| 10 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stared | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stared | conj |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 went | xcomp |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 postbox | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 postbox | det |
| 16 | postbox | postbox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 looked | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | advcl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 looked | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | Kieran from Kieran's own street | Maddie | at class | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at class=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | Kieran from Kieran's own street not said here | as a postbox; red property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look back | past | Kieran | whenever property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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