Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 28
New boy Theo has a stammer; kids keep finishing his words for him — «b-b-bus?
Who acts: New boy, kids, Theo · What happens: have, keep, finish, word · To what, where: stammer, words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» 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 (New boy, kids, Theo), 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 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 boy | amod |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 3 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | appos |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stammer | det |
| 6 | stammer | stammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 finishing | punct |
| 8 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | parataxis |
| 10 | finishing | finish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 words | nmod:poss |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 finishing | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 finishing | obl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 finishing | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 finishing | punct |
| 17 | b | B | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bus | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 b | punct |
| 19 | b | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bus | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 b | punct |
| 21 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finishing | conj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | New boy | a stammer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stammer=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | kids | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | finish | gerund | kids not said here | Theo's words | for Theo | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality word=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | word | Theo | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:28.
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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