Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi, sentence 8

Then one evening he really did have lag, his character walking into a wall for ten seconds, and nobody believed a word.

Who acts: squad, character, nobody · What happens: have, walk, believe · To what, where: lag, wall, word

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» 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 (squad, character, nobody), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 have	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 evening	nummod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 have	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	lag	lag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 character	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 character	nmod:poss
11	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walking	nsubj
12	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 have	advcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 wall	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wall	det
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walking	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 seconds	case
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 seconds	nummod
18	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 walking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 believed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 believed	cc
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 believed	nsubj
22	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 have	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 word	det
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 believed	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	squad	lag	then; evening		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lag=Patient
2	walk	gerund	squad's character		second	into a wall result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wall=Result
3	believe	past	nobody	a word			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus

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:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi.lesson:8.

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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