Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 5
Ruby had never played; she just pressed every button as fast as she could, and she won.
Who acts: Ruby · What happens: not play, press, win · To what, where: button
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore losers and button-mashers» 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 (Ruby), 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 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 played | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 played | advmod |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 pressed | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pressed | nsubj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 pressed | advmod |
| 8 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | parataxis |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 button | det |
| 10 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pressed | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 8 pressed | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 could | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 could | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fast | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 won | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 won | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 won | nsubj |
| 19 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not play | past · perfect | Ruby | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | press | past | Ruby | every button | fast property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme | |||
| 3 | win | past | Ruby | vn succeed-74-2 «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:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:5.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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