Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up, sentence 0

Being picked on day after day makes the dread start the night before: Ethan, whose bag gets pushed off the bench every day by a group of Year 6 boys who use a word about who someone might love as an insult, lies in bed thinking: "Why me?

Who acts: dread, group, Year 6 boys, someone, Ethan · What happens: pick, make, start, push off, use, love · To what, where: dread, bench, word, bed

This is a sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» 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 (dread, group, Year 6 boys, someone), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 picked	aux:pass
2	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 makes	csubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obl
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 day	case
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dread	det
9	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obj
10	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 makes	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 start	obj
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 Ethan	case
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 lies	punct
15	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 lies	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gets	punct
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 bag	nmod:poss
18	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gets	nsubj
19	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 pushed	aux:pass
20	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Ethan	acl:relcl
21	off	off	ADP	_	23 bench	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bench	det
23	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pushed	obl
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pushed	obl:unmarked
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 group	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 group	det
28	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pushed	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Year	case
30	Year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 boys	compound
31	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 boys	nummod
32	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 group	nmod
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 use	nsubj
34	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 boys	acl:relcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 word	det
36	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 use	obj
37	about	about	SCONJ	_	41 love	mark
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 love	obj
39	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	41 love	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 love	aux
41	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 word	acl
42	as	as	ADP	_	44 insult	case
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 insult	det
44	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 love	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 lies	punct
46	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 makes	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 bed	case
48	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 lies	obl
49	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 lies	advcl
50	:	:	PUNCT	_	52 Why	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 Why	punct
52	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 makes	conj
53	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 Why	nsubj
54	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	gerund · passive				day		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»
2	make	present		the dread				tree rules
3	start	infinitive	the dread not said here			night		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	push off	present · passive	a group Year 6 boys	the bench		day		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bench=Theme
5	use	present	Year 6 boys	a word				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
6	love	might	someone	a word			as a insult	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus
7	lie	present	Ethan		bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
8	think speech: other	gerund	Ethan not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.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): R5-strong ×9, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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