«It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 29

And Noah's little sister said «Noah hit me!» every day when he hadn't — so the one day he really pushed her, Mum didn't believe her, until Noah admitted the push himself.

Who acts: little sister, Noah, Mum · What happens: say, hit, —, push, not believe, admit · To what, where: little sister, Mum, older, push · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» 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 (little sister, Noah, Mum), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
2	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sister	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Noah	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sister	amod
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct
8	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hit	nsubj
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hit	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl:unmarked
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 —	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 —	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 —	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 had	advmod
19	—	—	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 day	acl:relcl
20	so	so	ADV	_	26 pushed	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 day	det
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 day	nummod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pushed	obl:unmarked
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pushed	nsubj
25	really	really	ADV	_	26 pushed	advmod
26	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 —	advcl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pushed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 believe	punct
29	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 believe	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 believe	aux
31	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 believe	advmod
32	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 pushed	parataxis
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 believe	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 admitted	punct
35	until	until	SCONJ	_	37 admitted	mark
36	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 admitted	nsubj
37	admitted	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 believe	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 push	det
39	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 admitted	obj
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 admitted	obl:unmarked
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	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	say speech: express	past	Noah's little sister		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hit in a quote	past	Noah	Noah's little sister = sister			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme
3	—	past · perfect	Noah				tree rules
4	push	past	Noah	Mum	day		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	not believe	past · do-support	Mum	older = old			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
6	admit speech: other	past	Noah	the push		Noah obl:unmarked	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent push=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:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:29.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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