Worry and sadness, sentence 18

A boy in Ohio kept his worries about his parents arguing to himself for months; he stopped sleeping well, got stomach aches every morning and his marks dropped, until he told his teacher and things got better.

Who acts: boy, parents, parent, marks, things, Ohio · What happens: keep, argue, stop, sleep, get, drop · To what, where: worries, parent, stomach aches, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Worry and sadness» 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, parents, parent, marks), 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	5 kept	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 worries	nmod:poss
7	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 parents	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 parents	nmod:poss
10	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 worries	nmod
11	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 parents	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 arguing	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 months	case
15	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 arguing	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 stopped	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stopped	nsubj
18	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
19	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 stopped	xcomp
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 sleeping	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 got	punct
22	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stopped	conj
23	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 aches	compound
24	aches	ache	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 got	obj
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 morning	det
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 got	obl:unmarked
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dropped	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 marks	nmod:poss
29	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dropped	nsubj
30	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 told	punct
32	until	until	SCONJ	_	34 told	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	nsubj
34	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dropped	advcl
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 teacher	nmod:poss
36	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 told	iobj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 got	cc
38	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 got	nsubj
39	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 told	conj
40	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 got	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a boy in Ohio	Ohio's worries			about Ohio's parents	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent worry=Theme about parent=Location
2	argue speech: disagree	gerund	Ohio's parents not said here		parent	month		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop	past	parent					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	sleep	gerund	parent not said here				well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get	past	parent not said here	stomach aches		morning		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ache=Stimulus
6	drop	past	parent's marks					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	past	parent		parent's teacher			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
8	get	past	things				good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	worry		Ohio				about Ohio's parents	nom worry «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl
10	mark		parent					nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=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:091-worry-and-sadness.lesson:18.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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