Showing off, sentence 12
Jake pretended to start a fight with Sam to look tough in front of the Year Sixes.
Who acts: Jake · What happens: pretend, start, look · To what, where: fight
This is a sentence of the lesson «Showing off» 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 (Jake), 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 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pretended | nsubj |
| 2 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 start | mark |
| 4 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pretended | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fight | det |
| 6 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 start | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Sam | case |
| 8 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fight | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 start | advcl |
| 11 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 look | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Sixes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sixes | det |
| 16 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Sixes | compound |
| 17 | Sixes | six | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 front | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pretended | 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 | pretend | past | Jake | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | start | to-infinitive | Jake not said here | a fight | with Sam | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality with sam=Subeventuality | |||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Jake not said here | in front of the Year Sixes; tough property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=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:390-showing-off.lesson:12.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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