Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 1
Kai was chased home by three older boys shouting that they would batter him (beat him up); they didn't catch him, but in bed he thought, "They know where I live now.
Who acts: three older boys, boys, Kai · What happens: chase, shout, batter, beat up, not catch, think · To what, where: Kai, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night» 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 (three older boys, boys, Kai), 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 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chased | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chased | aux:pass |
| 3 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 chased | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 boys | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 boys | nummod |
| 7 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 boys | amod |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chased | obl:agent |
| 9 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 boys | acl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 batter | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 batter | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 batter | aux |
| 13 | batter | batter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shouting | ccomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 batter | obj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 beat | punct |
| 16 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 batter | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beat | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 beat | compound:prt |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 beat | punct |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 catch | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 catch | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 catch | aux |
| 23 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 catch | advmod |
| 24 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chased | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 catch | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 thought | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 know | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 bed | case |
| 29 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 thought | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 thought | nsubj |
| 31 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chased | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bed | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 know | punct |
| 34 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 know | nsubj |
| 35 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chased | conj |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 live | advmod |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 live | nsubj |
| 38 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 know | ccomp |
| 39 | now | now | ADV | _ | 38 live | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chased | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past · passive | three older boys | Kai | home property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | three older boys not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | batter | would | boys = boy | Kai | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | beat up | infinitive | Kai | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not catch | past · do-support | boys = boy | Kai | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | Kai | bed | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | know in a quote | present | boys = boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | live in a quote | present | Kai | now | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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