The kid who has it in for you, sentence 10
Arjun keeps staring at Lily and whispering, and Lily is sure he's plotting, until his mate says, «He fancies you, he's just a bit of a muppet about it.» Not every starer is an enemy.
Who acts: Arjun, Lily, mate, starer · What happens: keep, stare, whisper, be, plot, say · To what, where: you, bit, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The kid who has it in for you» 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 (Arjun, Lily, mate, starer), 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 | Arjun | Arjun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 keeps | xcomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Lily | case |
| 5 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 staring | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 whispering | cc |
| 7 | whispering | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 staring | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sure | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sure | cc |
| 10 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sure | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sure | cop |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 keeps | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 plotting | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 plotting | aux |
| 15 | plotting | plot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 says | punct |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 says | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mate | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 says | nsubj |
| 20 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 plotting | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fancies | punct |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 fancies | punct |
| 23 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fancies | nsubj |
| 24 | fancies | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 plotting | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 fancies | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bit | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 bit | nsubj |
| 28 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 bit | cop |
| 29 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 bit | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 bit | det |
| 31 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 muppet | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 muppet | det |
| 34 | muppet | muppet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bit | nmod |
| 35 | about | about | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 muppet | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 44 enemy | punct |
| 39 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 starer | advmod |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 starer | det |
| 41 | starer | starer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 enemy | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 enemy | cop |
| 43 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 enemy | det |
| 44 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Arjun | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | Arjun not said here | at Lily | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lily=Theme | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | Arjun not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | Lily | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | plot | present · progressive | Lily | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | Lily's mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | fancy in a quote | present | mate | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | mate | a bit | of a muppet about muppet | tree rules | |||
| 9 | is a | present | every starer | a enemy | tree rules |
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:471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.lesson:10.
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): R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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