Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 5
Shame can turn into making things right: Finn told his mum, knocked on the man's door with her, said sorry and helped pay for the glass, and the man shook his hand; "everyone did it" never made the clip stop, but owning up slowly did.
Who acts: Shame, Finn, man, everyone · What happens: turn, make, tell, knock, say, help · To what, where: things, mum, door, hand, clip stop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» 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 (Shame, Finn, man, everyone), 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 | Shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | aux |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 5 making | mark |
| 5 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 turn | advcl |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 making | obj |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 making | xcomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 9 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 right | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mum | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knocked | punct |
| 14 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 door | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 man | case |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knocked | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knocked | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | conj |
| 24 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 said | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 helped | cc |
| 26 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | conj |
| 27 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 helped | xcomp |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 glass | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 glass | det |
| 30 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pay | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 shook | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 shook | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 man | det |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shook | nsubj |
| 35 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 helped | conj |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 hand | nmod:poss |
| 37 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shook | obj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 everyone | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 everyone | punct |
| 40 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 41 did | nsubj |
| 41 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 made | csubj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 did | obj |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 did | punct |
| 44 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 45 made | advmod |
| 45 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | parataxis |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 stop | det |
| 47 | clip | clip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 stop | compound |
| 48 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 made | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 owning | punct |
| 50 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 51 owning | cc |
| 51 | owning | own | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 54 did | csubj |
| 52 | up | up | ADP | _ | 51 owning | compound:prt |
| 53 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 51 owning | advmod |
| 54 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 made | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | can | Shame | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | gerund | Shame not said here | things | right property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Finn | Finn's mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | knock | past | Finn not said here | the man's door | with person | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location | |||
| 5 | say speech: apologize | past | Finn not said here | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | help | past | Finn not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | pay | infinitive | Finn not said here | for the glass | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for glass=Theme | ||||
| 8 | shake | past | the man | Finn's hand | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 9 | do in a quote | past | everyone | hand | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 10 | not make | past | the clip stop | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stop=Product | |||||
| 11 | own up | gerund | slowly property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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