The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape, sentence 0
Losing a fight in front of people hurts the pride much more than the body: Connor got pinned down by Liam behind the bike sheds while kids chanted, and on the bus home his head ran hot: "I got battered in front of the whole year.
Who acts: Losing, Liam, kids, head · What happens: lose, hurt, pin down, chant, run, batter · To what, where: fight, front, pride, Connor, bike sheds, bus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape» 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 (Losing, Liam, kids, head), 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 | Losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hurts | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fight | det |
| 3 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Losing | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 front | case |
| 5 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Losing | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 front | nmod |
| 8 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pride | det |
| 10 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hurts | obj |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 hurts | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 body | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 body | det |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 more | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Connor | punct |
| 17 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 pinned | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pinned | aux:pass |
| 19 | pinned | pin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hurts | parataxis |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 pinned | compound:prt |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Liam | case |
| 22 | Liam | Liam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 pinned | obl |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 26 sheds | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sheds | det |
| 25 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sheds | compound |
| 26 | sheds | shed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pinned | obl |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 chanted | mark |
| 28 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 chanted | nsubj |
| 29 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pinned | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 ran | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 ran | cc |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 bus | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bus | det |
| 34 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ran | obl |
| 35 | home | home | ADV | _ | 34 bus | advmod |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 head | nmod:poss |
| 37 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ran | nsubj |
| 38 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pinned | conj |
| 39 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ran | xcomp |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 43 got | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 got | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 battered | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 battered | aux:pass |
| 44 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 ran | parataxis |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 front | case |
| 46 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 battered | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 year | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 year | det |
| 49 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 year | amod |
| 50 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 front | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | a fight | front of people | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hurt | present | Losing | the pride | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pride=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pin down | past · passive | Liam | Connor | the bike sheds | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | chant | past | kids | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | run | past | Connor's head | the bus | hot property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | batter in a quote | past · passive | I | front of the whole year | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument |
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:018-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape.lesson:0.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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