Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 3

The first month she cried every night and barely spoke in class, so nobody would hear the accent; by month three a girl at netball asked her round and she started to laugh again; after a year she had a bit of an Aussie twang herself.

Who acts: family, nobody, girl · What happens: cry, speak, hear, ask, start, laugh · To what, where: class, accent, family, bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» 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 (family, nobody, girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 month	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 month	amod
3	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl:unmarked
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 spoke	cc
9	barely	barely	ADV	_	10 spoke	advmod
10	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 class	case
12	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spoke	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 hear	advmod
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 hear	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hear	aux
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 accent	det
19	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hear	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 asked	punct
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 month	case
22	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 asked	obl:unmarked
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 month	flat
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 girl	det
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 asked	nsubj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 netball	case
27	netball	netball	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 girl	nmod
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	parataxis
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 asked	iobj
30	round	round	ADV	_	28 asked	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 started	cc
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 started	nsubj
33	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 asked	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 laugh	mark
35	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 started	xcomp
36	again	again	ADV	_	35 laugh	advmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
38	after	after	ADP	_	40 year	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 year	det
40	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obl
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	parataxis
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 bit	det
44	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 twang	case
46	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 twang	det
47	Aussie	Aussie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 twang	amod
48	twang	twang	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bit	nmod
49	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 had	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	family				month; night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	past	family not said here			class		barely property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	would	nobody	the accent					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer accent=Stimulus
4	ask speech: ask	past	a girl at netball		family		month	round property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	start	past	family						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	laugh	to-infinitive	family not said here				again		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	have	past	family	a bit of a Aussie twang			year	family obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:3.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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