The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline, sentence 5
Some leagues try «silent touchline» weekends where adults may only clap, and many kids say they play more freely; parents cheer, the coach coaches, and the best words after a game are «I love watching you play».
Who acts: leagues, adults, many kids, kids, parents, coach · What happens: try, clap, say, play, cheer, coach · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» 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 (leagues, adults, many kids, kids), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 leagues | det |
| 2 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 try | nsubj |
| 3 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 weekends | punct |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 touchline | amod |
| 6 | touchline | touchline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weekends | compound |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 touchline | punct |
| 8 | weekends | weekend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 try | obj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 clap | advmod |
| 10 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 clap | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 clap | aux |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 clap | advmod |
| 13 | clap | clap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 weekends | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 say | cc |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kids | amod |
| 17 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 say | nsubj |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | conj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 play | nsubj |
| 20 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 say | ccomp |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 freely | advmod |
| 22 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 20 play | advmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 cheer | punct |
| 24 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 cheer | nsubj |
| 25 | cheer | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 play | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 coaches | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 coaches | det |
| 28 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 coaches | nsubj |
| 29 | coaches | coach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 cheer | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 love | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 love | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 words | det |
| 33 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 words | amod |
| 34 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 love | nsubj |
| 35 | after | after | ADP | _ | 37 game | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 game | det |
| 37 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 words | nmod |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 love | cop |
| 39 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 41 love | punct |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 love | nsubj |
| 41 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 play | parataxis |
| 42 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 love | xcomp |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 play | nsubj |
| 44 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 watching | xcomp |
| 45 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 41 love | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | some leagues | weekend | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | clap | may | adults | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | many kids | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | play | present | kids = kid | freely property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | cheer | present | parents | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | coach | present | coach | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | the best words after a game | love property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | watch not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | the best words after a game not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | play in a quote | infinitive | you | vn performance-26.7-1 «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:medicine:068-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline.lesson:5.
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 ×3, 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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