Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, sentence 1
Peer pressure is feeling pushed to buy or do something because friends do; "everyone has them" often means 3 children in a class of 30, which is 1 in 10, not everyone.
Who acts: everyone, class · What happens: push, buy, do, have, mean, be · To what, where: something, friends, 3 children, 1, 10
This is a sentence of the lesson «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money 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 (everyone, class), 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 | Peer | peer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pressure | compound |
| 2 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeling | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feeling | aux:pass |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 pushed | aux:pass |
| 5 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 buy | mark |
| 7 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pushed | xcomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 do | cc |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 buy | conj |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 buy | obj |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 buy | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 has | obj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 21 means | advmod |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 has | conj |
| 22 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 children | nummod |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 means | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 class | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 class | det |
| 26 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 means | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 30 | case |
| 28 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 class | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 1 | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 1 | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 1 | cop |
| 32 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 class | appos |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 10 | case |
| 34 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 1 | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 everyone | punct |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 everyone | advmod |
| 37 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 1 | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | gerund · passive | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | something | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | everyone | friends = friend | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | everyone not said here | 3 children | in a class of 30; often property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot child=Theme in class=Attribute | |||
| 6 | is a | present | a class of 30 | 1 | 10 | 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:money:010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.lesson:1.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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