The only child: a quiet house, sentence 19

In Montreal, Jules goes to grown-up dinners and chats easily about hockey and politics, but at recess kids his age seem loud and silly, and he feels left out.

Who acts: Jules, recess kids · What happens: go, seem, feel, leave out · To what, where: Montreal

This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» 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 (Jules, recess kids), 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 Montreal	case
2	Montreal	Montreal	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Montreal	punct
4	Jules	Jules	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 dinners	case
7	grown	grown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dinners	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 grown	compound:prt
10	dinners	dinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 goes	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 chats	cc
12	chats	chat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dinners	conj
13	easily	easily	ADV	_	12 chats	advmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 hockey	case
15	hockey	hockey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chats	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 politics	cc
17	politics	politics	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 hockey	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seem	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 seem	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 kids	case
21	recess	recess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kids	compound
22	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 seem	nsubj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 age	nmod:poss
24	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kids	appos
25	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 goes	conj
26	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seem	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 silly	cc
28	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 loud	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 feels	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 feels	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 feels	nsubj
32	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 seem	conj
33	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 feels	xcomp
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 left	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	Jules	Montreal	to grown dinners and chats	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial_Location
2	seem	present	recess kids		loud property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	feel	present	Jules			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	leave out	participle	Jules not said here			vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:19.

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 ×1, R6-punct-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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