Food, drinks and feeling ill, sentence 21

Someone who says they are «lovesick» means they feel so sad or excited about a person they like that they do not feel like eating; it is not a real illness.

Who acts: children, Someone, parent · What happens: say, be, mean, feel, like, not feel · To what, where: person, real illness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Food, drinks and feeling ill» 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 (children, Someone, parent), 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	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 means	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Someone	acl:relcl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lovesick	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lovesick	cop
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 lovesick	punct
7	lovesick	lovesick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 lovesick	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feel	nsubj
11	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	ccomp
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 sad	advmod
13	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feel	xcomp
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 excited	cc
15	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sad	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 person	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 person	det
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 excited	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 like	nsubj
20	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 person	acl:relcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 feel	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 feel	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 feel	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 feel	advmod
25	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 like	xcomp
26	like	like	SCONJ	_	27 eating	mark
27	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 feel	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 illness	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 illness	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 illness	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 illness	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 illness	det
33	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 illness	amod
34	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	children = child		lovesick property	tree rules
3	mean	present	Someone			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	feel	present	children = child		sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	like	present	children = child	a person not said here		tree rules
6	not feel not said to happen	present · do-support	children = child			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	eat	gerund	children = child not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not is a	present	parent	a real illness		tree rules

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:081-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill.lesson:21.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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