Fights, racism and being a bystander, sentence 2
Do I not belong anywhere?" For weeks he stopped talking about his family's food and language at school, as if hiding them would make the words stop.
Who acts: I, Mo, hiding, words · What happens: not belong, stop, talk, hide, make · To what, where: school, food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fights, racism and being a bystander» 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 (I, Mo, hiding, words), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 belong | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 belong | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 belong | advmod |
| 4 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stopped | parataxis |
| 5 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 belong | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 belong | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 belong | punct |
| 8 | For | for | ADP | _ | 9 weeks | case |
| 9 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stopped | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stopped | xcomp |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 food | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 family | nmod:poss |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 food | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 family | case |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talking | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 language | cc |
| 19 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 food | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 school | case |
| 21 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talking | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hiding | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 hiding | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 hiding | mark |
| 25 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 make | csubj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hiding | obj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 talking | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 words | det |
| 30 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 stop | nsubj |
| 31 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 make | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not belong | present · do-support | I | anywhere property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | past | Mo | week | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | talk in a quote | gerund | Mo not said here | school | about Mo's family's food and language | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about food=Topic | |||
| 4 | hide a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | food | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||||
| 5 | make in a quote | would | hiding | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | stop in a quote | infinitive | the words | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:2.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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