Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 31
Kicking things in anger can break bones; losing hurts less than a broken toe.
Who acts: Kicking · What happens: kick, break, lose · To what, where: things, anger, bones, hurts
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 (Kicking), 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 | Kicking | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 break | csubj |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kicking | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 anger | case |
| 4 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kicking | obl |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 break | aux |
| 6 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 break | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 losing | punct |
| 9 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 break | advcl |
| 10 | hurts | hurt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 losing | obj |
| 11 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 hurts | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 toe | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 toe | det |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 toe | amod |
| 15 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 less | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 break | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | gerund | things | anger | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Patient in anger=Location | ||||
| 2 | break | can | Kicking | bones | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | Kicking not said here | hurts | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:31.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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