Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 39

A stammer means a person's words sometimes repeat or get stuck; it has nothing to do with how clever they are.

Who acts: stammer, words, person · What happens: mean, repeat, get, have, do, be · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stammer, words, person), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stammer	det
2	stammer	stammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 words	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 person	case
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 repeat	nsubj
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 repeat	advmod
9	repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 get	cc
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 repeat	conj
12	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 get	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	parataxis
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 has	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 nothing	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 clever	case
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 clever	advmod
21	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 do	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 clever	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 clever	cop
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a stammer			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	repeat	present	a person's words		sometimes property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	get	infinitive	a person's words not said here		stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	present	stammer	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	stammer not said here	nothing not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	words = word		clever property	tree rules
7	word		a person			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.

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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 ×2, 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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