Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 2
A crowd is like petrol: neither boy wanted to back down with thirty faces watching.
Who acts: crowd, boy, thirty faces · What happens: be, want, back down, watch
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, boy, thirty faces), 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 | 5 petrol | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 petrol | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 petrol | case |
| 5 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 wanted | punct |
| 7 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 boy | det |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 petrol | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 back | mark |
| 11 | back | back | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wanted | xcomp |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 back | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 faces | case |
| 14 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 faces | nummod |
| 15 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 back | obl |
| 16 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 faces | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 petrol | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a crowd | like petrol | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | neither boy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | back down not said to happen | to-infinitive | neither boy not said here | with thirty faces | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | thirty faces not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:393-bystanders.lesson:2.
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): no change. 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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