Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings, sentence 21
A girl in Canada felt lonely at her new school and started talking online to a stranger who said he was a kid; he was an adult who asked for photos, and she told her mum, who stopped it and reported him.
Who acts: girl, stranger, boy, adult, mum · What happens: feel, start, talk, say, be, ask · To what, where: new school, kid, adult, mum, stranger, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, stranger, boy, adult), 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 Canada | case |
| 4 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 school | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 school | nmod:poss |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 school | amod |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 started | cc |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | conj |
| 13 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 started | xcomp |
| 14 | online | online | ADV | _ | 13 talking | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 stranger | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stranger | det |
| 17 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 talking | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stranger | acl:relcl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kid | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 kid | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 kid | det |
| 23 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 adult | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 adult | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 adult | cop |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 adult | det |
| 28 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kid | conj |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 asked | nsubj |
| 30 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 adult | acl:relcl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 photos | case |
| 32 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 asked | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 told | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 told | cc |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 told | nsubj |
| 36 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 mum | nmod:poss |
| 38 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 told | iobj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 stopped | punct |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 stopped | nsubj |
| 41 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 mum | acl:relcl |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 stopped | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 reported | cc |
| 44 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 stopped | conj |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 reported | obj |
| 46 | . | . | 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 Canada | Canada's new school | lonely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | start | past | a girl in Canada not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | a girl in Canada not said here | to a stranger; online property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to stranger=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a stranger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | boy | a kid and a adult | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | boy | a adult | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | past | a adult | for photos | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | past | adult | adult's mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | stop | past | adult's mum | stranger | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | ||||
| 10 | report | past | adult's mum not said here | boy | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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:21.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. 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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