Friends, teams and fair play, sentence 5

A boy in Texas kept cheating in games at break time; soon nobody wanted to play with him, and he spent lunchtimes alone.

Who acts: boy, nobody · What happens: keep, cheat, want, play, spend · To what, where: games, lunchtimes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends, teams and fair play» 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, nobody), 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 kept	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cheating	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 games	case
8	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cheating	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	compound
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 games	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 wanted	punct
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 wanted	advmod
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 wanted	nsubj
15	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 play	mark
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wanted	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 play	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spent	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 spent	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 spent	nsubj
23	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wanted	conj
24	lunchtimes	lunchtime	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 spent	obj
25	alone	alone	ADV	_	23 spent	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a boy in Texas				tree rules
2	cheat	gerund	a boy in Texas not said here		games at break time		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	want	past	nobody			soon property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	nobody not said here			with boy	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
5	spend	past	boy	lunchtimes		alone property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunchtime=Asset

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:052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.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): no change. 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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