Hiding it from friends: being skint at school, sentence 29

In Toronto, Jamal's buddy pays for his hot chocolate at Timmies (Canadian for Tim Hortons café), and Jamal, who can't pay back, starts avoiding him.

Who acts: buddy, Jamal · What happens: pay, not pay back, start, avoid · To what, where: Toronto, Jamal

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» 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 (buddy, Jamal), 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 Toronto	case
2	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pays	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pays	punct
4	Jamal	Jamal	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 buddy	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Jamal	case
6	buddy	buddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pays	nsubj
7	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 chocolate	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 chocolate	nmod:poss
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chocolate	amod
11	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pays	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 Timmies	case
13	Timmies	timmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pays	obl
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 Canadian	punct
15	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Timmies	amod
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 café	case
17	Tim	Tim	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 café	compound
18	Hortons	horton	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 café	compound
19	café	café	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Canadian	obl
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 Canadian	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 starts	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 starts	cc
23	Jamal	Jamal	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 starts	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pay	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 pay	nsubj
26	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 pay	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 pay	advmod
28	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Jamal	acl:relcl
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 pay	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 starts	punct
31	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pays	conj
32	avoiding	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 starts	xcomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 avoiding	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay	present	Jamal's buddy		Toronto	for buddy's hot chocolate; at Timmies	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for chocolate=Theme
2	not pay back	can	Jamal				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	start	present	Jamal				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	avoid	gerund	Jamal not said here	Jamal			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location

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:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:29.

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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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