Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up, sentence 4
What he came to understand: nothing is wrong with him; using who someone might be as an insult is bullying; bullies pick anyone who looks like they won't fight back; and the fear of tomorrow is often worse than tomorrow itself.
Who acts: fear, nothing, using, bullies · What happens: come, understand, be, use, pick, look · To what, where: anyone, tomorrow
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 (fear, nothing, using, bullies), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 understand | obj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wrong | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 understand | mark |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 wrong | punct |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 wrong | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wrong | cop |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wrong | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 using | punct |
| 13 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 bullying | csubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 be | dep |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 be | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 be | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 bullying | aux |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 bullying | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 insult | det |
| 20 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 be | obl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bullying | cop |
| 22 | bullying | bully | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 wrong | parataxis |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 pick | punct |
| 24 | bullies | bully | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pick | nsubj |
| 25 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wrong | conj |
| 26 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 pick | obj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 looks | nsubj |
| 28 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 29 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 33 fight | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 fight | nsubj |
| 31 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 fight | aux |
| 32 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 fight | advmod |
| 33 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 looks | advcl |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 fight | advmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 worse | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 worse | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 fear | det |
| 38 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 worse | nsubj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 tomorrow | case |
| 40 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fear | nmod |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 worse | cop |
| 42 | often | often | ADV | _ | 43 worse | advmod |
| 43 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 wrong | parataxis |
| 44 | than | than | ADP | _ | 45 tomorrow | case |
| 45 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 worse | obl |
| 46 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 45 tomorrow | nmod:unmarked |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | fear | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | understand | to-infinitive | fear not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | present | nothing | with fear; wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | use | gerund | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | using | bully property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pick | present | bullies | anyone | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | ||||
| 7 | look | present | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 8 | not fight back | future | bullies = bully | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is | present | the fear of tomorrow | tomorrow | bad, often property | tree rules | |||
| 10 | fear | tomorrow | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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:4.
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): no change. 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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