Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 0
For weeks Kyle's mate Dev kept snapping at him, "Leave it, man, just leave it," and Kyle lay in bed thinking: "What did I do?
Who acts: mate, Kyle, I · What happens: keep, snap, leave, lay, thinking, do · To what, where: mate, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face» 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 (mate, Kyle, I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 weeks | case |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kept | obl |
| 3 | Kyle | Kyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mate | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Kyle | case |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | Dev | Dev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | snapping | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 snapping | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Leave | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Leave | punct |
| 13 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 snapping | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Leave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Leave | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leave | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 leave | advmod |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Leave | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 leave | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leave | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 leave | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lay | cc |
| 24 | Kyle | Kyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 lay | nsubj |
| 25 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 bed | case |
| 27 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lay | obl |
| 28 | thinking | thinking | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 lay | advcl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 do | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 do | punct |
| 31 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 do | obj |
| 32 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 do | aux |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 do | nsubj |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 thinking | ccomp |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Kyle's mate | week | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | snap | gerund | Kyle's mate not said here | at Dev | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | infinitive | Kyle's mate not said here | mate | man obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave in a quote | infinitive | mate | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lay | past | Kyle | bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bed=Destination | ||||
| 6 | thinking | gerund | Kyle not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | do in a quote | past · do-support | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:0.
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 ×4, 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.
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