Bullying and how to stop it, sentence 5
A girl in Ohio was teased every day for months and told no one; she became so unhappy that she did not want to go to school at all, until a teacher noticed and stopped it.
Who acts: girl, teacher · What happens: tease, tell, become, not want, go, notice · To what, where: girl, one, all, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bullying and how to stop it» 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 (girl, teacher), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teased | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 teased | aux:pass |
| 6 | teased | tease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teased | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 months | case |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 teased | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 teased | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 became | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 became | nsubj |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | parataxis |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 unhappy | advmod |
| 19 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 became | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 want | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 want | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 want | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 want | advmod |
| 24 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 unhappy | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 want | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 school | case |
| 28 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 all | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 go | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 noticed | punct |
| 32 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 35 noticed | mark |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 teacher | det |
| 34 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 noticed | nsubj |
| 35 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 became | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 stopped | cc |
| 37 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 noticed | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 stopped | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 teased | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | past · passive | a girl in Ohio | day; month | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | no one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | become | past | girl | unhappy property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not want | past · do-support | girl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | all | to school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | notice | past | a teacher | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | stop | past | a teacher not said here | teacher | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |
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:055-bullying.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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