Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 4

At home her mum explained that people sometimes stare and go red when they like someone, and that it is perfectly normal.

Who acts: mum, people, home · What happens: explain, stare, go, like, be · To what, where: home, someone · 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 (mum, people, home), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 home	case
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explained	obl
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explained	nsubj
5	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 stare	mark
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stare	nsubj
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 stare	advmod
9	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 explained	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stare	conj
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 go	xcomp
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 like	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 like	nsubj
15	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 go	advcl
16	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 like	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 normal	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 normal	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 normal	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 normal	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 normal	cop
22	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	23 normal	advmod
23	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stare	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 explained	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past	Maddie's mum		home		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stare	present	people			sometimes property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	go	present	people not said here			red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	like	present	people	someone			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme
5	is	present	home			normal, perfectly property	tree rules

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:4.

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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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