Showing off, sentence 8
Tom flicked his ruler at Lily to make his mates laugh; it caught the corner of her eye.
Who acts: Tom, mates, ruler · What happens: flick, make, laugh, catch · To what, where: ruler, Lily, mates, corner
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 (Tom, mates, ruler), 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 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 flicked | nsubj |
| 2 | flicked | flick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ruler | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flicked | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Lily | case |
| 6 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 flicked | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 flicked | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mates | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 make | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 caught | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 caught | nsubj |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flicked | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 corner | det |
| 16 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 eye | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eye | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 corner | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flicked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flick | past | Tom | Tom's ruler | Lily | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ruler=Theme at lily=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | Tom's mates | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | infinitive | Tom's mates not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | catch | past | ruler | the corner of Lily's eye | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=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:8.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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