Showing off, sentence 21

After the giggles, they worked it out: people show off when they want to be liked or noticed.

Who acts: people · What happens: work out, show off, want, like, notice · To what, where: class

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 (people), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 giggles	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giggles	det
3	giggles	giggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 worked	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 giggles	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 worked	nsubj
6	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 worked	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 worked	compound:prt
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 show	punct
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 show	nsubj
11	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worked	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 show	compound:prt
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 want	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
15	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 show	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	18 liked	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 liked	aux:pass
18	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 want	xcomp
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 noticed	cc
20	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 liked	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 worked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	work out	past	people	class	after the giggles	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	show off	present	people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	present	people			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	like not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	people not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»
5	notice	participle	people not said here			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:21.

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): 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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