The new kid and the first day, sentence 35
Nicknames for newcomers are often teasing rather than hate, but if one is nasty, tell a teacher.
Who acts: Nicknames, one · What happens: tease, be, tell · To what, where: teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The new kid and the first day» 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 (Nicknames, one), 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 | Nicknames | nickname | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 teasing | nsubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 newcomers | case |
| 3 | newcomers | newcomer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nicknames | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 teasing | aux |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 teasing | advmod |
| 6 | teasing | tease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 9 hate | cc |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 rather | fixed |
| 9 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teasing | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 tell | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 nasty | mark |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 nasty | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 nasty | cop |
| 15 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tell | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nasty | punct |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 teasing | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 teacher | det |
| 19 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | iobj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 teasing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | present · progressive | Nicknames for newcomers | often property | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | one | nasty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Nicknames for newcomers not said here | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
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:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.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): no change. 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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