Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did, sentence 33

Some people who bullied others were having a hard time themselves; that explains it but doesn't make it OK.

Who acts: people, that · What happens: bully, have, explain, not make · To what, where: others, people, sorry

This is a sentence of the lesson «Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did» 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 (people, that), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 having	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 bullied	nsubj
4	bullied	bully	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 people	acl:relcl
5	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bullied	obj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 having	aux
7	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 having	obj
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 having	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 explains	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 explains	nsubj
14	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 having	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 explains	obj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 make	cc
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 make	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 make	advmod
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 explains	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	obj
21	OK	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 make	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 having	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bully	past	some people	others			vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary
2	have	past · progressive	some people	people	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
3	explain speech: assert	present	that	sorry			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	not make	present · do-support	that not said here	sorry		ok property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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:484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did.lesson:33.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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