Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 8
Connor tries the opposite way: he barges into a game he isn't in, grabs the ball and shouts, «Oi, YOU, mark him, you're rubbish!» «Who even are you?» they say, and tell him to get lost.
Who acts: Connor, you, boys · What happens: try, barge, not be, grab, shout, mark · To what, where: opposite way, game, ball, Connor, rubbish · 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 (Connor, you, boys), 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 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tries | nsubj |
| 2 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tries | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 barges | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 barges | nsubj |
| 8 | barges | barge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | acl:relcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 game | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 game | det |
| 11 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 barges | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 in | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 in | cop |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 in | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 game | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grabs | punct |
| 17 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 barges | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ball | det |
| 19 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grabs | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shouts | cc |
| 21 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 grabs | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Oi | punct |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 Oi | punct |
| 24 | Oi | Oi | INTJ | _ | 26 YOU | vocative |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grabs | punct |
| 26 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 tries | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mark | punct |
| 28 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tries | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 mark | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rubbish | punct |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 rubbish | nsubj |
| 32 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 rubbish | cop |
| 33 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mark | parataxis |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 tries | punct |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 tries | punct |
| 36 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 37 Who | punct |
| 37 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 say | parataxis |
| 38 | even | even | ADV | _ | 39 are | advmod |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 Who | cop |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 Who | nsubj |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 37 Who | punct |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 44 say | punct |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 say | nsubj |
| 44 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tries | parataxis |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 tell | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 tell | cc |
| 47 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 say | conj |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 tell | obj |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 lost | mark |
| 50 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 tell | xcomp |
| 51 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 get | xcomp |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tries | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | Connor | the opposite way | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus way=Experiencer you=Result | ||||
| 2 | barge | present | Connor | the opposite way not said here | a game | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 3 | not is | present | Connor | a game not said here | in property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | grab | present | Connor not said here | the ball | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | present | Connor not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | mark in a quote | infinitive | Connor not said here | Connor | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | you | rubbish | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | say speech: ask | present | boys = boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | tell speech: assert | present | boys = boy not said here | Connor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 11 | get not said to happen | infinitive | boys = boy not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 12 | lose | participle | boys = boy not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:8.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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