I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark, sentence 6
His coach said, "Only people brave enough to take penalties miss them," and watching famous misses online helped; hiding his boots did not.
Who acts: coach, people, watching · What happens: say, brave, take, miss, watch, help · To what, where: penalties, people, famous misses, boots · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark» 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 (coach, people, watching), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 coach | nmod:poss |
| 2 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brave | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 brave | punct |
| 6 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 7 people | advmod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brave | nsubj |
| 8 | brave | brave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 brave | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 brave | advcl |
| 12 | penalties | penalty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | xcomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 miss | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brave | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 brave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 helped | cc |
| 18 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 helped | csubj |
| 19 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 misses | amod |
| 20 | misses | miss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 watching | obj |
| 21 | online | online | ADV | _ | 18 watching | advmod |
| 22 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 hiding | punct |
| 24 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 boots | nmod:poss |
| 26 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hiding | obj |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hiding | ccomp |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 did | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | coach's coach | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | brave in a quote | present | people | enough property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | people not said here | penalties | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent penalty=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | miss in a quote | infinitive | people not said here | people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | watch | gerund | famous misses | online property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miss=Theme | ||||
| 6 | help | past | watching | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | hide | gerund | coach's coach not said here | coach's boots | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | not do | past | coach's coach not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:024-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark.lesson:6.
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 ×2, 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.
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