Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 15
In netball a girl keeps pushing Maddie behind the umpire's back; the one time Maddie shoves back, the umpire sees it and sends Maddie off.
Who acts: girl, Maddie, umpire · What happens: keep, push, shove back, see, send off · To what, where: netball, Maddie, back
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 (girl, Maddie, umpire), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 netball | case |
| 2 | netball | netball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | nsubj |
| 5 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | pushing | push | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 keeps | xcomp |
| 7 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pushing | obj |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 umpire | det |
| 10 | umpire | umpire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 umpire | case |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pushing | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 shoves | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 time | nummod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shoves | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shoves | nsubj |
| 18 | shoves | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 keeps | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 shoves | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sees | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 umpire | det |
| 22 | umpire | umpire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sees | nsubj |
| 23 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 keeps | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sees | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sends | cc |
| 26 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sees | conj |
| 27 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sends | obj |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 sends | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | a girl | netball | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | push | gerund | a girl not said here | Maddie | the umpire's back | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent maddie=Theme behind back=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | shove back | present | Maddie | time | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | present | the umpire | back | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | send off | present | the umpire not said here | Maddie | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maddie=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:15.
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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