Your body and how you look, sentence 13
A boy in Leeds was teased about his ears and said nothing to anyone; for months he hid in the library at lunch until a teacher noticed and helped.
Who acts: boy, teacher · What happens: tease, say, hide, notice, help · To what, where: boy, nothing, anyone, library · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Your body and how you look» 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, 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 | 6 teased | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | 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 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 ears | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ears | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 teased | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 teased | conj |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 said | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 anyone | case |
| 14 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 hid | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 months | case |
| 17 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hid | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hid | nsubj |
| 19 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 teased | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 library | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 library | det |
| 22 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hid | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 lunch | case |
| 24 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hid | obl |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 28 noticed | mark |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 teacher | det |
| 27 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 noticed | nsubj |
| 28 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hid | advcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 helped | cc |
| 30 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 noticed | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 teased | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | past · passive | a boy in Leeds | about boy's ears | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | nothing | anyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to anyone=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | boy | the library | month | at lunch | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in library=Location | ||
| 4 | notice | past | a teacher | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | help | past | a teacher not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:088-liking-how-you-look.lesson:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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