Growing and sport, sentence 18

Bigger, heavier bodies are a real strength in some positions, like rugby forwards such as a prop; teasing someone about their size is never OK.

Who acts: Bigger heavier bodies, teasing · What happens: be, tease, not be · To what, where: real strength, positions, someone

This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» of the medicine 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 (Bigger heavier bodies, teasing), 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	Bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bodies	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 strength	punct
3	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bodies	amod
4	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 strength	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 strength	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 strength	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strength	amod
8	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 positions	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 positions	det
11	positions	position	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 strength	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forwards	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 forwards	case
14	rugby	rugby	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 forwards	compound
15	forwards	forward	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 positions	nmod
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	19 prop	case
17	as	as	ADP	_	16 such	fixed
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 prop	det
19	prop	prop	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 forwards	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 teasing	punct
21	teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 OK	csubj
22	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 teasing	obj
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 size	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 size	nmod:poss
25	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 someone	nmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 OK	cop
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 OK	advmod
28	OK	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strength	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 strength	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bigger heavier bodies	a real strength	some positions like rugby forwards such a prop		tree rules
2	tease	gerund		someone		about bodies's size	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient
3	not is	present	teasing			ok property	tree rules

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:medicine:040-growing-and-sport.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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