Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 12
An older girl at the bus stop calls Mia «baby» every morning; ignoring her for a month only makes it worse, so Mia tells the bus driver, who makes the girl sit at the front.
Who acts: older girl, ignoring, Mia, bus driver, girl · What happens: call, ignore, make, tell, sit · To what, where: Mia, baby, bus driver, girl, front · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rival teams and the older bully» 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 (older girl, ignoring, Mia, bus driver), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calls | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 stop | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stop | det |
| 6 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stop | compound |
| 7 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | nmod |
| 8 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 calls | obj |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 baby | punct |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calls | xcomp |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 baby | punct |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 morning | det |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calls | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 ignoring | punct |
| 16 | ignoring | ignore | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 makes | csubj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ignoring | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 month | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 month | det |
| 20 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ignoring | obl |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 makes | advmod |
| 22 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 calls | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 makes | obj |
| 24 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 makes | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tells | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 tells | advmod |
| 27 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 tells | nsubj |
| 28 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 calls | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 driver | det |
| 30 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 driver | compound |
| 31 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tells | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 makes | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 makes | nsubj |
| 34 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 driver | acl:relcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 girl | det |
| 36 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 makes | obj |
| 37 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 makes | xcomp |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 front | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 front | det |
| 40 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sit | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | a older girl at the bus stop | Mia | morning | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient | |||
| 2 | ignore | gerund | Mia | month | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | present | ignoring | baby | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present | Mia | the bus driver | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | make | present | the bus driver | the girl | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sit | infinitive | the girl not said here | the front | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at front=Location |
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:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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