Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 20
And when Kieran showed off doing wheelies in front of her and went flying, Maddie laughed, but kindly, and helped him up.
Who acts: Kieran, Maddie · What happens: show off, do, go, fly, laugh, help up · To what, where: wheelies, front, two
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, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laughed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 showed | advmod |
| 3 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 4 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 laughed | advcl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 showed | compound:prt |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 showed | advcl |
| 7 | wheelies | wheelie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 doing | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doing | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 front | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 showed | conj |
| 14 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 went | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flying | punct |
| 16 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 laughed | nsubj |
| 17 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kindly | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 kindly | cc |
| 20 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 17 laughed | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 helped | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 helped | cc |
| 23 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 laughed | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 helped | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 helped | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 laughed | 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 | show off | past | Kieran | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | gerund | Kieran not said here | wheelies | front of Maddie | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelie=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | go | past | Kieran not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | Kieran not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | laugh | past | Maddie | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | help up | past | Maddie not said here | two | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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:20.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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