Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 23
In Grimsby a boy calls Pete a loser, and his sister Dilly, a whole head shorter, marches up: «Say that again, I dare yer.» The boy backs off laughing.
Who acts: boy, sister, Loyalty · What happens: call, march up, say, dare, back off, laugh · To what, where: Pete, Grimsby, that, yer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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 (boy, sister, Loyalty), 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 Grimsby | case |
| 2 | Grimsby | Grimsby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 calls | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 calls | nsubj |
| 5 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Pete | Pete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 calls | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 loser | det |
| 8 | loser | loser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 calls | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 marches | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 marches | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 marches | nsubj |
| 13 | Dilly | Dilly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sister | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 head | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 head | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 head | amod |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shorter | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 sister | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sister | punct |
| 20 | marches | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 calls | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 marches | compound:prt |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 marches | punct |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 Say | punct |
| 24 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 marches | parataxis |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 Say | obj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 Say | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Say | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 dare | nsubj |
| 29 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Say | parataxis |
| 30 | yer | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 dare | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 calls | punct |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 calls | punct |
| 33 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 boy | det |
| 34 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 backs | nsubj |
| 35 | backs | back | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 calls | conj |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 backs | compound:prt |
| 37 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 backs | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | a boy | Pete | Grimsby | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pete=Recipient | |||
| 2 | march up | present | boy's sister | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | that | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 4 | dare in a quote | present | Loyalty | yer | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | back off | present | the boy | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | laugh | gerund | the boy not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:23.
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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