Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying, sentence 18
A boy in Ohio was bullied for months and told no one; he began to fake illness to stay home, until his teacher found out and the bullying was stopped.
Who acts: boy, teacher · What happens: bully, tell, begin, fake, stay, find out · To what, where: boy, one, illness, bullying · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying» 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, 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bullied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bullied | aux:pass |
| 6 | bullied | bully | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 months | case |
| 8 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bullied | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bullied | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fake | mark |
| 17 | fake | fake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fake | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 stay | mark |
| 20 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fake | advcl |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 stay | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 23 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 26 found | mark |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 25 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | nsubj |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 began | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 found | compound:prt |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stopped | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bullying | det |
| 30 | bullying | bullying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stopped | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stopped | aux:pass |
| 32 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 found | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bullied | 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 | bully | past · passive | a boy in Ohio | month | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | no one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | boy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | fake | to-infinitive | boy not said here | illness | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Patient | ||||
| 5 | stay | to-infinitive | boy not said here | home property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find out | past | boy's teacher | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | stop | past · passive | the bullying | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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:098-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying.lesson:18.
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): R1-cc-next ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/98-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying/18/