Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 6
A girl in Texas trusted a new online friend because he knew her school and hobbies; he had simply read her public posts, and he used them to trick her into thinking he knew her.
Who acts: girl, friend · What happens: trust, know, read, use, trick, think · To what, where: new online friend, school, public posts, posts, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» 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, friend), 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 trusted | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 friend | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 friend | amod |
| 8 | online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 friend | amod |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trusted | obj |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 knew | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 trusted | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 school | nmod:poss |
| 14 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hobbies | cc |
| 16 | hobbies | hobby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 school | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 trusted | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 read | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 read | aux |
| 20 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 21 read | advmod |
| 21 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 trusted | parataxis |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 posts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 posts | amod |
| 24 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 read | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 used | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 used | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 used | nsubj |
| 28 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 trusted | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 used | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 trick | mark |
| 31 | trick | trick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 used | xcomp |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 trick | obj |
| 33 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 34 thinking | mark |
| 34 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 trick | advcl |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 knew | nsubj |
| 36 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 thinking | ccomp |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 knew | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trusted | 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 | trust | past | a girl in Texas | a new online friend | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | friend | girl's school and hobbies | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer school=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | read | past · perfect | friend | girl's public posts | simply property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent post=Topic | |||
| 4 | use | past | friend | posts = post | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | trick | to-infinitive | friend not said here | girl | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | gerund | friend not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | know | past | friend | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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:060-reasoning-about-people.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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