Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 13
«That's the worst way to like someone,» she told him.
Who acts: That, Maddie · What happens: be, like, tell · To what, where: worst way, someone, crush · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, Maddie), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 way | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 like | mark |
| 8 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 way | acl |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 like | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the worst way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | like in a quote | to-infinitive | Maddie not said here | someone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Maddie | crush | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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:13.
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): 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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