Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up, sentence 15
A bystander only watches; an upstander helps, even in small ways like sitting with the person or telling a teacher together.
Who acts: bystander, upstander, small ways · What happens: watch, help, sit, tell · To what, where: small ways, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bystander, upstander, small ways), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bystander | det |
| 2 | bystander | bystander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watches | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 watches | advmod |
| 4 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 helps | punct |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 upstander | det |
| 7 | upstander | upstander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 helps | nsubj |
| 8 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 watches | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ways | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 ways | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ways | case |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ways | amod |
| 13 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 helps | obl |
| 14 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 15 sitting | mark |
| 15 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 ways | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 person | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sitting | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 telling | cc |
| 20 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 sitting | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 teacher | det |
| 22 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 telling | obj |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 telling | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watches | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present | a bystander | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | help | present | a upstander | small ways | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | small ways not said here | with the person | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | small ways not said here | a teacher | together property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
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:15.
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. 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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