Staying safe and kind online, sentence 6
A girl in Canada chatted online with someone who said he was 12 and liked her favourite band; he asked to meet her alone, and when her parents checked, he was a grown man, and the police stepped in.
Who acts: girl, Canada, parents, police · What happens: chat, say, be, like, ask, meet · To what, where: 12, favourite band, girl, grown man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying safe and kind online» 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, Canada, parents, police), 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 | 5 chatted | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Canada | case |
| 4 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | chatted | chat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | online | online | ADV | _ | 5 chatted | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 someone | case |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 chatted | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 someone | acl:relcl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 12 | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 12 | cop |
| 13 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 liked | cc |
| 15 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 band | nmod:poss |
| 17 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 band | amod |
| 18 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 liked | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 asked | nsubj |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chatted | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 meet | mark |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 asked | xcomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 meet | obj |
| 25 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 23 meet | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 checked | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 checked | cc |
| 28 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 31 checked | mark |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 parents | nmod:poss |
| 30 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 checked | nsubj |
| 31 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 asked | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 checked | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 man | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 man | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 36 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 man | amod |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 checked | ccomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 stepped | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 stepped | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 police | det |
| 41 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 stepped | nsubj |
| 42 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 man | conj |
| 43 | in | in | ADV | _ | 42 stepped | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chatted | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat speech: other | past | a girl in Canada | with someone; online property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with someone=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | Canada | 12 | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | like | past | girl's favourite band | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot band=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | Canada | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | meet not said to happen | to-infinitive | Canada not said here | girl | alone property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||
| 7 | check | past | girl's parents | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | is a | past | Canada | a grown man | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | step in | past | the police | vn run-51.3.2 «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:059-staying-safe-and-kind-online.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): 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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