Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings, sentence 20
A boy in Leeds got so frustrated with his maths homework that he tore up his book; he had to redo all the pages and still did not understand the sums until he asked for help.
Who acts: boy · What happens: get, tear up, have, redo, not understand, ask · To what, where: book, pages, sums
This is a sentence of the lesson «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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), 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 got | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 frustrated | advmod |
| 7 | frustrated | frustrated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 homework | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 homework | nmod:poss |
| 10 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 homework | compound |
| 11 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frustrated | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 tore | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tore | nsubj |
| 14 | tore | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frustrated | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 tore | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 book | nmod:poss |
| 17 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tore | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 redo | mark |
| 22 | redo | redo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | xcomp |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 pages | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pages | det |
| 25 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 redo | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 understand | cc |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 understand | advmod |
| 28 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 understand | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 understand | advmod |
| 30 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sums | det |
| 32 | sums | sum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 understand | obj |
| 33 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 35 asked | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 asked | nsubj |
| 35 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 understand | advcl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 help | case |
| 37 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 asked | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | a boy in Leeds | frustrated property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | tear up | past | boy | boy's book | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location book=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | boy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | redo | to-infinitive | boy not said here | all pages | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not understand | past · do-support | boy not said here | the sums | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sum=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | boy | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:20.
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. 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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