Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 13

His squad laughed at first, then saw him on camera bouncing about and joined in; now the whole squad does «jump breaks», including his cousin in Australia.

Who acts: squad, camera · What happens: laugh, see, bounce, join in, jump · To what, where: Jayden, camera, breaks

This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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, camera), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 squad	nmod:poss
2	squad	squad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 laughed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 saw	advmod
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 camera	case
11	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl
12	bouncing	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 camera	acl
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 bouncing	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 joined	cc
15	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bouncing	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	15 joined	compound:prt
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 jump	punct
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 does	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 squad	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 squad	amod
21	squad	squad	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 does	nsubj
22	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 jump	aux
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 jump	punct
24	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laughed	conj
25	breaks	break	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 jump	obj
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 breaks	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 jump	punct
28	including	include	ADP	_	30 cousin	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 cousin	nmod:poss
30	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jump	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 Australia	case
32	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 cousin	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Jayden's squad					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	Jayden's squad not said here	Jayden	camera	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	bounce	gerund	camera not said here				about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	join in	past	camera not said here					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	jump in a quote	present · do-support	Jayden's squad not said here	breaks			include Jayden's cousin in Australia	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme break=Trajectory

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:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:13.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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