Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 2
Nobody came — they had made it up to laugh at him.
Who acts: Nobody, kids · What happens: come, make up, laugh · To what, where: party
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 (Nobody, kids), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 came | parataxis |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 made | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 laugh | mark |
| 10 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laugh | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Nobody | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make up | past · perfect | kids = kid | party | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | laugh | to-infinitive | kids = kid not said here | at Callum | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:2.
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): R6-punct-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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