Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 20
A boy in Leeds whose dog died was told by a friend not to cry; he held it in for weeks and got stomach aches and bad dreams until he talked with his mum and cried.
Who acts: dog, friend, boy · What happens: die, tell, not cry, hold in, get, talk · To what, where: boy, fun, stomach aches · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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 (dog, friend, 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 | 9 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 dog | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 boy | acl:relcl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | aux:pass |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 friend | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 friend | det |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obl:agent |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 cry | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cry | mark |
| 15 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 told | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 held | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 held | nsubj |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 held | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 held | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 weeks | case |
| 22 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 held | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 got | cc |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 held | conj |
| 25 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 aches | compound |
| 26 | aches | ache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 got | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dreams | cc |
| 28 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dreams | amod |
| 29 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 aches | conj |
| 30 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 32 talked | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 talked | nsubj |
| 32 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 got | advcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 mum | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 mum | nmod:poss |
| 35 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 talked | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 cried | cc |
| 37 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 talked | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | dog | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | a friend | a boy in Leeds | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not cry speech: express not said to happen | to-infinitive | a boy in Leeds not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hold in | past | boy | fun | week | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | get | past | boy not said here | stomach aches and bad dreams | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ache=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | talk | past | boy | with boy's mum | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mum=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | cry speech: express | past | boy not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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:097-moving-change-and-grief.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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