Bullying and how to stop it, sentence 6

A boy in Sydney watched others push a smaller boy into lockers and did nothing; when he told a teacher at last, he learnt that it had been going on for weeks.

Who acts: boy, others, teacher · What happens: watch, push, do, tell, learn, go on · To what, where: smaller boy, lockers, nothing, teacher, last · 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 (boy, others, 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watched	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Sydney	case
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 push	nsubj
7	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 watched	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
9	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 push	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 lockers	case
12	lockers	locker	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 push	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 did	cc
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 watched	conj
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 did	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 told	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 learnt	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 teacher	det
21	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	iobj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 learnt	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 learnt	nsubj
26	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 watched	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 going	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 going	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 going	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 going	aux
31	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 learnt	ccomp
32	on	on	ADP	_	31 going	compound:prt
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 weeks	case
34	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 going	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 watched	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	watch	past	a boy in Sydney					tree rules
2	push	infinitive	others	a smaller boy		lockers		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme into locker=Destination
3	do	past	a boy in Sydney not said here	nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	past	boy		a teacher	last		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
5	learn	past	boy					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go on	past · perfect · progressive	teacher				week	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:6.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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