What everyone learned about fights, sentence 23
Teasing or tugging someone to get their attention usually makes them like you less, not more.
Who acts: Teasing, cadets · What happens: tease, tug, get, make, attend · To what, where: someone, attention, cadets
This is a sentence of the lesson «What everyone learned about fights» 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 (Teasing, cadets), 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 | Teasing | tease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 makes | csubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 tugging | cc |
| 3 | tugging | tug | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Teasing | conj |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 tugging | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tugging | advcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 attention | nmod:poss |
| 8 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 makes | advmod |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | obj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | obl |
| 14 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 makes | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 more | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 makes | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | gerund | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | tug | gerund | someone | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | cadets's attention | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make | present | Teasing | cadets = cadet | like you; less, usually property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 5 | attend | cadets = cadet | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:395-what-everyone-learned.lesson:23.
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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