Facing fears, sentence 16

A boy in Leeds was afraid of the dentist and hid his toothache for weeks; by the time he went, the tooth needed taking out instead of a small filling.

Who acts: boy, tooth · What happens: be, hide, go, need, take out · To what, where: toothache, time

This is a sentence of the lesson «Facing fears» 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, tooth), 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 afraid	nsubj
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 afraid	cop
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 dentist	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dentist	det
9	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afraid	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hid	cc
11	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 toothache	nmod:poss
13	toothache	toothache	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hid	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 weeks	case
15	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hid	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 needed	punct
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 needed	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 time	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 time	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tooth	det
24	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 needed	nsubj
25	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	conj
26	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 needed	xcomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 taking	compound:prt
28	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	32 filling	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 instead	fixed
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 filling	det
31	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 filling	amod
32	filling	filling	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taking	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a boy in Leeds			of the dentist; afraid property	tree rules
2	hide	past	a boy in Leeds not said here	boy's toothache	week		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothache=Patient
3	go	past	boy	the time not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
4	need	past	the tooth		time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	take out not said to happen	gerund	the tooth not said here			instead a small filling	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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:090-facing-fears.lesson:16.

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, 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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