Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 18

Sam told his little cousin that eating a bug would give him a superpower; the cousin ate a woodlouse and cried, and his aunt was raging.

Who acts: Sam, eating, cousin, aunt · What happens: tell, eat, give, cry, rage · To what, where: little cousin, bug, superpower, Sam, woodlouse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cruel pranks and where the line is» 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 (Sam, eating, cousin, aunt), 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	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cousin	nmod:poss
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cousin	amod
5	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 give	mark
7	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 give	csubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bug	det
9	bug	bug	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eating	obj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 superpower	det
14	superpower	superpower	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 ate	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cousin	det
17	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ate	nsubj
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 woodlouse	det
20	woodlouse	woodlouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ate	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cried	cc
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ate	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 raging	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 raging	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 aunt	nmod:poss
26	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 raging	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 raging	aux
28	raging	rage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 ate	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Sam		Sam's little cousin	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cousin=Recipient clause=Topic
2	eat	gerund		a bug		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient
3	give	would	eating	a superpower	Sam	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient superpower=Theme
4	eat	past	the cousin	a woodlouse		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodlouse=Patient
5	cry speech: express	past	the cousin not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rage	past · progressive	cousin's aunt			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.lesson:18.

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): 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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