Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 5

Video calls with Nan and that one friendly girl helped; refusing to talk did not, because silence kept her alone with the worst story in her head.

Who acts: Video calls, refusing, silence · What happens: help, refuse, not talk, not do, keep · To what, where: girl

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 (Video calls, refusing, silence), 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	Video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	compound
2	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 helped	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 Nan	case
4	Nan	Nan	PROPN	_	2 calls	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 girl	cc
6	that	that	DET	PronType=Dem	9 girl	det
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 girl	nummod
8	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	conj
10	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 did	punct
12	refusing	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 did	csubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 talk	mark
14	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 refusing	xcomp
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 helped	conj
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 did	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 kept	mark
19	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	nsubj
20	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 did	advcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kept	obj
22	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 kept	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 story	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 story	det
25	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 story	amod
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 story	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 helped	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	past	Video calls with Nan and that one friendly girl			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	refuse	gerund				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not talk	to-infinitive				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not do	past	refusing			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	keep	past	silence	girl	with the worst story in girl's head; alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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