Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 25
Ignoring a bully sometimes works, but if it gets worse, tell someone in charge.
Who acts: Ignoring, bully · What happens: ignore, work, get, tell · To what, where: bully, someone, charge · 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 (Ignoring, bully), 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 | Ignoring | ignore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 works | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bully | det |
| 3 | bully | bully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ignoring | obj |
| 4 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 works | advmod |
| 5 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 tell | cc |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 gets | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gets | nsubj |
| 10 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | advcl |
| 11 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 gets | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gets | punct |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 works | conj |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 tell | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 charge | case |
| 16 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 someone | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 works | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | gerund | a bully | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bully=Theme | |||||
| 2 | work | present | Ignoring | sometimes property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | bully | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Ignoring not said here | someone | charge | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |
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:25.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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