Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 14
Getting hurt in front of people adds embarrassment to pain; flinching when a ball comes near is normal for a while afterwards.
Who acts: ball, flinching · What happens: hurt, add, flinch, come, be · To what, where: front, embarrassment · 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 (ball, flinching), 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 | Getting | get | AUX | VerbForm=Ger | 2 hurt | aux:pass |
| 2 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 adds | csubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 front | case |
| 4 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hurt | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 front | nmod |
| 7 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | embarrassment | embarrassment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 adds | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pain | case |
| 10 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 adds | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 flinching | punct |
| 12 | flinching | flinch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 normal | csubj |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 comes | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ball | det |
| 15 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 comes | nsubj |
| 16 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 flinching | advcl |
| 17 | near | near | ADV | _ | 16 comes | advmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 normal | cop |
| 19 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 adds | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 while | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 while | det |
| 22 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 normal | obl |
| 23 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 19 normal | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 adds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | gerund · passive | front of people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present | embarrassment | to pain | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent embarrassment=Patient to pain=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | flinch | gerund | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | come | present | a ball | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | flinching | while | afterwards, normal property | tree rules |
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:14.
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): no change. 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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