Worry and sadness, sentence 19
A girl in Melbourne felt sad every day after her best friend moved away and told no one; she stopped eating lunch and playing, until her mum noticed and found her someone to talk to.
Who acts: girl, best friend, Melbourne, mum · What happens: feel, move away, tell, stop, eat, play · To what, where: one, lunch, someone, mum · 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 (girl, best friend, Melbourne, mum), 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 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Melbourne | case |
| 4 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | xcomp |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 moved | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 friend | amod |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moved | nsubj |
| 13 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | advcl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 moved | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 moved | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 told | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 stopped | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stopped | nsubj |
| 21 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | parataxis |
| 22 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 stopped | xcomp |
| 23 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eating | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 playing | cc |
| 25 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 eating | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 noticed | punct |
| 27 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 30 noticed | mark |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mum | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 noticed | nsubj |
| 30 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stopped | advcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 found | cc |
| 32 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 noticed | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 found | iobj |
| 34 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 found | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 talk | mark |
| 36 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 someone | acl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 talk | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | a girl in Melbourne | day | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | move away | past | Melbourne's best friend | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Melbourne's best friend not said here | no one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | Melbourne | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | eat | gerund | Melbourne not said here | lunch | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient | ||||
| 6 | play | gerund | Melbourne not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | notice | past | Melbourne's mum | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | find | past | Melbourne's mum not said here | someone | mum | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme someone=Attribute | |||
| 9 | talk | to-infinitive | Melbourne's mum not said here | someone not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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:091-worry-and-sadness.lesson:19.
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, R7-rel-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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