Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, sentence 18

A boy in Leeds broke a neighbour's window with a ball and hid; when it came out he was in more trouble for hiding than for the window.

Who acts: boy, window, more trouble · What happens: break, hide, come out, be · To what, where: window, more trouble

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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, window, more trouble), 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 broke	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 neighbour	det
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 window	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 neighbour	case
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 ball	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ball	det
12	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hid	cc
14	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broke	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 came	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broke	conj
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 trouble	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 trouble	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 trouble	case
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 trouble	amod
24	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 hiding	mark
26	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 trouble	acl
27	than	than	ADP	_	30 window	case
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 window	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 window	det
30	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hiding	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 broke	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past	a boy in Leeds	a neighbour's window		with a ball	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent window=Patient with ball=Instrument
2	hide	past	a boy in Leeds not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come out	past	window			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	boy		more trouble		tree rules
5	hide	gerund	more trouble not said here			than the window	vn concealment-16-1 «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:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.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): no change. 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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