Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 1
He's turned into a proper muppet." ("Muppet" is UK slang for an idiot.) He was angry and hurt, and he stopped calling round.
Who acts: Kyle, Muppet · What happens: turn, be, stop, call round · To what, where: proper muppet, UK slang · 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 (Kyle, Muppet), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | aux |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 muppet | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 muppet | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 muppet | amod |
| 7 | muppet | muppet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 slang | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Muppet | punct |
| 12 | Muppet | muppet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slang | nsubj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Muppet | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 slang | cop |
| 15 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 slang | compound |
| 16 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 idiot | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 idiot | det |
| 19 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slang | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 slang | punct |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 slang | punct |
| 22 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 angry | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 angry | cop |
| 24 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hurt | cc |
| 26 | hurt | hurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 angry | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stopped | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stopped | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 stopped | nsubj |
| 30 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 31 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 stopped | xcomp |
| 32 | round | round | ADV | _ | 31 calling | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · perfect | Kyle | a proper muppet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Muppet | UK slang | for a idiot | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | Kyle | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | Kyle not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | stop in a quote | past | Kyle | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | call round speech: assert in a quote | gerund | Kyle not said here | round property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:1.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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