Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight, sentence 9
Calling someone a nasty name for "stupid" is bullying; such words stick because they come at a weak moment, but they are not the truth.
Who acts: Calling, such words, words · What happens: call, be, stick, come, not be · To what, where: someone, bullying, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection 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 (Calling, such words, words), 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 | Calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 bullying | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Calling | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 4 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 name | amod |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calling | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 stupid | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stupid | punct |
| 8 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 name | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stupid | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bullying | cop |
| 11 | bullying | bullying | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 stick | punct |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 words | amod |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stick | nsubj |
| 15 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bullying | parataxis |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 stick | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 moment | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moment | det |
| 21 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 moment | amod |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 truth | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 truth | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 truth | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 truth | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 truth | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 truth | det |
| 29 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bullying | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bullying | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | someone | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme name=Result | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Calling | bullying | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stick | present | such words | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | come | present | words = word | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not is a | present | words = word | the truth | 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:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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