Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 6

As the crowd thinned, the two boys had no one to perform for, and the shoving slowed.

Who acts: crowd, two boys, shoving · What happens: thin, have, perform, slow · To what, where: one

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, two boys, shoving), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 thinned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinned	nsubj
4	thinned	thin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinned	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 boys	nummod
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 perform	mark
13	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 one	acl
14	for	for	ADP	_	13 perform	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 slowed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 slowed	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shoving	det
18	shoving	shoving	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 slowed	nsubj
19	slowed	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	thin	past	the crowd		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	have	past	the two boys	no one	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	perform	to-infinitive	the two boys not said here	no one not said here	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	slow	past	the shoving		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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: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): R1-cc-next ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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