Worry and sadness, sentence 4
A girl in Toronto lies awake before a maths test; she writes «I'm scared I'll forget fractions» on a note, reminds herself that she practised all week, and falls asleep ten minutes later.
Who acts: girl, Worry, Worries · What happens: lie, write, be, forget, remind, practise · To what, where: maths test, note, fractions, Worry · 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, Worry, Worries), 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 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Toronto | case |
| 4 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lies | xcomp |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 test | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 test | det |
| 9 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 test | compound |
| 10 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lies | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 writes | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 writes | nsubj |
| 13 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lies | parataxis |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 scared | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 scared | nsubj |
| 16 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 scared | cop |
| 17 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 writes | ccomp |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 forget | nsubj |
| 19 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 forget | aux |
| 20 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 scared | ccomp |
| 21 | fractions | fraction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 forget | obj |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 scared | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 note | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 note | det |
| 25 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 writes | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 reminds | punct |
| 27 | reminds | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lies | conj |
| 28 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 reminds | obj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 practised | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 practised | nsubj |
| 31 | practised | practise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 reminds | ccomp |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 week | det |
| 33 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 practised | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 falls | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 falls | cc |
| 36 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lies | conj |
| 37 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 falls | xcomp |
| 38 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 minutes | nummod |
| 39 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 later | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 falls | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a girl in Toronto | a maths test | awake property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before test=Location | |||
| 2 | write | present | Worry | a note | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on note=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Worries = worry | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | forget in a quote | future | Worries = worry | fractions | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | remind speech: other | present | a girl in Toronto not said here | Worry | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | practise | past | Worry | week | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fall | present | a girl in Toronto not said here | asleep, late property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:4.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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