The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline, sentence 9
The brain struggles to follow several shouted instructions at once in the middle of a move.
Who acts: brain · What happens: struggle, follow, shout · To what, where: several shouted instructions, middle
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 (brain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brain | det |
| 2 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struggles | nsubj |
| 3 | struggles | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 follow | mark |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 struggles | xcomp |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 instructions | amod |
| 7 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 instructions | amod |
| 8 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 follow | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 follow | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 middle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 middle | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 follow | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 move | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 move | det |
| 16 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 middle | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struggles | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | present | the brain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | the brain not said here | several shouted instructions | the middle of a move | once property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme in middle=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | shout speech: express | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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:9.
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 ×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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