Manners and kindness, sentence 5
A boy in Ohio laughed at a new girl's accent every day; she started to dread school and cried at home, and it took her months to feel happy there again.
Who acts: boy, girl, new girl · What happens: laugh, start, dread, cry, take, feel · To what, where: accent, school, home, girl
This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» 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, girl, new girl), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 accent | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 girl | amod |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 accent | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 girl | case |
| 11 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | obl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 started | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 started | nsubj |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 dread | mark |
| 18 | dread | dread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 started | xcomp |
| 19 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dread | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cried | cc |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 started | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cried | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 took | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 took | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 took | expl |
| 27 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 took | iobj |
| 29 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 took | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 feel | mark |
| 31 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 took | advcl |
| 32 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 feel | xcomp |
| 33 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 feel | advmod |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 feel | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | a boy in Ohio | a new girl's accent | day | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | start | past | girl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | dread | to-infinitive | girl not said here | school | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer school=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | girl not said here | home | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 5 | take | past | a boy in Ohio not said here | home | girl | month | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||
| 6 | feel | to-infinitive | a boy in Ohio not said here | there | again | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||
| 7 | accent | a new girl | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:5.
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 ×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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