Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 31
Laughing kindly and then helping is different from laughing at someone.
Who acts: Laughing · What happens: laugh, help, be · To what, where: someone
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 (Laughing), 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 | Laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 different | csubj |
| 2 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 1 Laughing | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 helping | cc |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 helping | advmod |
| 5 | helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Laughing | conj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 different | cop |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 9 laughing | mark |
| 9 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 different | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 someone | case |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 laughing | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 different | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | kindly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | help | gerund | then | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Laughing | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | Laughing not said here | someone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:31.
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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