Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 14

When a big boy snatches her little brother's hat, Lily tells him to give it back, and he does — but she still tells the teacher on duty, in case it happens again.

Who acts: big boy, Lily, boy, it · What happens: snatch, tell, give back, do, happen · To what, where: hat, boy, teacher · 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 (big boy, Lily, boy, it), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 snatches	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snatches	nsubj
5	snatches	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tells	advcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brother	amod
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hat	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 brother	case
10	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snatches	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Lily	punct
12	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tells	nsubj
13	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tells	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 give	mark
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tells	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	obj
18	back	back	ADP	_	16 give	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 does	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 does	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 does	nsubj
22	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tells	conj
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 tells	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 tells	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tells	nsubj
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 tells	advmod
27	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tells	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 teacher	det
29	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tells	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 duty	case
31	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 teacher	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 happens	punct
33	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 happens	mark
34	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 in	fixed
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 happens	nsubj
36	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tells	advcl
37	again	again	ADV	_	36 happens	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tells	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	snatch	present	a big boy	rivalry's little brother's hat			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	Lily		boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give back not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lily not said here	hat			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	do	present	boy				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	present	Lily		the teacher	still	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
6	happen	present	it			again	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:14.

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 ×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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