Fights, racism and being a bystander, sentence 7
And fights between friends often start from a guess, like Ruby screaming "You did that on purpose!" at netball when it was an accident; checking first saves a lot of fights, and even screaming rows can be mended with a real sorry.
Who acts: fights, Ruby, You, netball, checking · What happens: start, scream, do, be, check, save · To what, where: guess, that, purpose, accident, lot, screaming rows · 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 (fights, Ruby, You, netball), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 start | cc |
| 2 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 start | nsubj |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 friends | case |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fights | nmod |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 start | advmod |
| 6 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 guess | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 guess | det |
| 9 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 start | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 screaming | punct |
| 11 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 screaming | mark |
| 12 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 screaming | nsubj |
| 13 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 start | advcl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 screaming | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 did | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 purpose | case |
| 19 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 did | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 netball | case |
| 23 | netball | netball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 start | obl |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 accident | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 accident | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 accident | cop |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 accident | det |
| 28 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 start | advcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 saves | punct |
| 30 | checking | check | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 saves | csubj |
| 31 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 checking | advmod |
| 32 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 start | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 lot | det |
| 34 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 saves | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 fights | case |
| 36 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 lot | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 mended | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 mended | cc |
| 39 | even | even | ADV | _ | 44 mended | advmod |
| 40 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 rows | amod |
| 41 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 mended | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 mended | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 mended | aux:pass |
| 44 | mended | mend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 saves | conj |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 sorry | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 sorry | det |
| 47 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 sorry | amod |
| 48 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 mended | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 start | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | fights between friends | a guess | at netball; often property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | gerund | Ruby | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | You | that | purpose | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | is a | past | netball | a accident | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | check | gerund | first property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | save | present | checking | a lot of fights | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | ||||
| 7 | scream speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | mend | can · passive | screaming rows | with a real sorry | tree rules |
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:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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