The kid who is always on the bench, sentence 15
Disappointment can tighten the throat muscles as you hold back tears; it fades, especially once you're moving.
Who acts: Disappointment, you · What happens: tighten, hold back, fade, move · To what, where: throat muscles, tears
This is a sentence of the lesson «The kid who is always on the bench» 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 (Disappointment, you), 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 | Disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tighten | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tighten | aux |
| 3 | tighten | tighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 muscles | det |
| 5 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 muscles | compound |
| 6 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tighten | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 hold | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 hold | nsubj |
| 9 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tighten | advcl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 hold | compound:prt |
| 11 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hold | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 fades | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fades | nsubj |
| 14 | fades | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tighten | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 moving | punct |
| 16 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 20 moving | advmod |
| 17 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 20 moving | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 moving | nsubj |
| 19 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 moving | aux |
| 20 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 fades | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tighten | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tighten | can | Disappointment | the throat muscles | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hold back | present | you | tears | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fade | present | Disappointment | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | move | present · progressive | you | especially property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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:070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.lesson:15.
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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