Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 15
They agreed to just be friends, and Maddie did not have to like him back.
Who acts: boys, Maddie · What happens: agree, be, not have, like back · To what, where: friends, crush
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 (boys, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 friends | mark |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 friends | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 friends | cop |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 agreed | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 9 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 have | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 have | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 like | mark |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 have | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 like | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 like | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | boys = boy | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | boys = boy not said here | friends | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not have | past · do-support | Maddie | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | like back | to-infinitive | Maddie not said here | crush | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
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:15.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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