Stories that change, sentence 35

When two kids blamed each other for a push — «by the gate!», «by the bins!» — the teacher asked a third kid: «They both pushed, by the bench.» When stories clash, ask what people are sure of, and find someone else who saw.

Who acts: two kids, teacher, kids, stories, people · What happens: blame, ask, push, clash, be, find · To what, where: other, third kid, someone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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 (two kids, teacher, kids, stories), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 blamed	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kids	nummod
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blamed	nsubj
4	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 other	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blamed	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 push	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 push	det
9	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blamed	obl
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 gate	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 gate	punct
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 gate	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gate	det
14	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blamed	parataxis
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 gate	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 gate	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 bins	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 bins	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bins	det
21	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 asked	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 bins	punct
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 teacher	det
26	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asked	nsubj
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blamed	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 kid	det
29	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 kid	amod
30	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asked	obj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 pushed	punct
33	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 pushed	nsubj
34	both	both	ADV	PronType=Tot	35 pushed	advmod
35	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 asked	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pushed	punct
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 bench	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 bench	det
39	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pushed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 bench	punct
41	»	»	PUNCT	_	46 ask	punct
42	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 clash	advmod
43	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 clash	nsubj
44	clash	clash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 ask	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 clash	punct
46	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 blamed	parataxis
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	50 sure	obj
48	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 sure	nsubj
49	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 sure	cop
50	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 ask	ccomp
51	of	of	ADP	_	50 sure	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 find	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 find	cc
54	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	46 ask	conj
55	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	54 find	obj
56	else	else	ADV	_	55 someone	advmod
57	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 saw	nsubj
58	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 someone	acl:relcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blamed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	blame	past	two kids	each other		for a push	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	the teacher		a third kid	by the bins	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient clause=Topic
3	push in a quote	past	kids = kid			by the bench; both property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by bench=Trajectory
4	clash	present	stories				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	people			sure property	tree rules
7	find	infinitive		someone			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Topic
8	see	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:35.

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 ×2. 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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