Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 28
Teasing friends about crushes makes them embarrassed and can push them into silly choices.
Who acts: Teasing · What happens: tease, make, push · To what, where: friends, silly choices
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 (Teasing), 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 | Teasing | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 makes | csubj |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Teasing | obj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 crushes | case |
| 4 | crushes | crush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 friends | nmod |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 makes | obj |
| 7 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 makes | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 push | cc |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 push | aux |
| 10 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 makes | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 push | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 choices | case |
| 13 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 choices | amod |
| 14 | choices | choice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 push | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | gerund | friends | about crushes | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Teasing | friends = friend | embarrassed property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 3 | push | can | Teasing not said here | friends = friend | silly choices | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into choice=Destination |
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:28.
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): no change. 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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