Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 21
A girl in Texas moved to a new town and did not tell anyone at the new school she was struggling; she ate lunch alone for months until a teacher noticed and set her up with a buddy.
Who acts: girl, teacher · What happens: move, not tell, struggle, eat, notice, set up · To what, where: new town, anyone, new school, lunch, teacher · 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 (girl, teacher), 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 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 town | amod |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tell | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 tell | advmod |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 moved | conj |
| 14 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 tell | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 school | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 school | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 school | amod |
| 18 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 struggling | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 struggling | aux |
| 21 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 tell | ccomp |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 ate | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ate | nsubj |
| 24 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | parataxis |
| 25 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ate | obj |
| 26 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 24 ate | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 months | case |
| 28 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ate | obl |
| 29 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 32 noticed | mark |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 teacher | det |
| 31 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 noticed | nsubj |
| 32 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ate | advcl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 set | cc |
| 34 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 noticed | conj |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 set | obj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 set | compound:prt |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 buddy | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 buddy | det |
| 39 | buddy | buddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 set | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | 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 | move | past | a girl in Texas | a new town | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to town=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | a girl in Texas not said here | anyone | the new school | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | struggle | past · progressive | girl | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | eat | past | girl | lunch | month | alone property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient | ||
| 5 | notice | past | a teacher | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | set up | past | a teacher not said here | teacher | with a buddy | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with buddy=Instrument |
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: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): R5-strong ×4. 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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