Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 19
A crowd watching a fight makes it harder for the fighters to stop, because nobody wants to lose face.
Who acts: crowd, fighters, nobody · What happens: watch, make, stop, want, lose · To what, where: fight, face
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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 (crowd, fighters, nobody), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crowd | det |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 crowd | acl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fight | det |
| 5 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watching | obj |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 harder | obj |
| 8 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 makes | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 stop | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fighters | det |
| 11 | fighters | fighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stop | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 stop | mark |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 harder | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wants | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 wants | mark |
| 16 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 wants | nsubj |
| 17 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 makes | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 lose | mark |
| 19 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wants | xcomp |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lose | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | 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 | watch | gerund | a crowd not said here | a fight | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a crowd | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | the fighters | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | want | present | nobody | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lose not said to happen | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | face | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Eventuality |
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:393-bystanders.lesson:19.
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 ×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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