Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes», sentence 9

Leo stared at the empty space where the kid had been and felt awful — he had just handed the meanness on, like a hot potato.

Who acts: Leo, kid · What happens: stare, feel, hand on · To what, where: meanness

This is a sentence of the lesson «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» 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 (Leo, kid), 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	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stared	nsubj
2	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 space	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 space	det
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 space	amod
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stared	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 felt	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kid	det
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 felt	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 felt	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 felt	aux
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 felt	cc
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stared	conj
14	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 felt	xcomp
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 handed	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 handed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 handed	aux
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 handed	advmod
19	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 stared	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 meanness	det
21	meanness	meanness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 handed	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	19 handed	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 potato	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 potato	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 potato	det
26	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 potato	amod
27	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 handed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stared	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stare	past	Leo		at the empty space	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at space=Theme
2	feel	past · perfect	the kid		awful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	hand on	past · perfect	kid	the meanness	like a hot potato	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meanness=Theme

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:406-toxic-players-and-swearing.lesson:9.

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, 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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