Fights, racism and being a bystander, sentence 4
Then there is Max, who just stood there while his friends bullied a younger kid: "I didn't do anything.
Who acts: Max, friends, Mo · What happens: be, stand, bully, not do · To what, where: younger kid, anything
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 (Max, friends, Mo), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 is | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 stood | advmod |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Max | acl:relcl |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stood | advmod |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 bullied | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friends | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bullied | nsubj |
| 13 | bullied | bully | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 kid | det |
| 15 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 kid | amod |
| 16 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bullied | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 do | advmod |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bullied | conj |
| 23 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | Max | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Max | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bully | past | Mo's friends | a younger kid | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | not do in a quote | past · do-support | Mo | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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: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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