Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 6

One teacher told Maddie she «can't help it, she's a tomboy», as if liking football meant she was bound to fight.

Who acts: One teacher, teacher · What happens: tell, not help, be, like, mean, fight · To what, where: Maddie, gran, tomboy, football · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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 (One teacher, teacher), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 teacher	nummod
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 help	nsubj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 help	punct
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 help	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 help	advmod
9	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 help	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tomboy	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tomboy	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tomboy	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tomboy	det
15	tomboy	tomboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 help	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 help	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 meant	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 meant	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 liking	mark
20	liking	like	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 meant	advcl
21	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 liking	obj
22	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	advcl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bound	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bound	cop
25	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 meant	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fight	mark
27	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 bound	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	One teacher		Maddie		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not help in a quote	can	teacher	gran			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
3	is a in a quote	present	teacher	a tomboy			tree rules
4	like a condition, not said to happen	gerund		football			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot football=Theme
5	mean	past	One teacher not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	teacher			bound property	tree rules
7	fight	to-infinitive	teacher not said here				vn battle-36.4-1 «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:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:6.

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. 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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