Owning up when it is hard, sentence 1
Picture a football flying through old Mrs Kowalski's greenhouse; all the kids leg it (run away), but Mia stops and goes back, which is brave and honest; most neighbours forgive a child who comes back and owns up.
Who acts: you, football, kids, Mia, most neighbours, child · What happens: picture, fly, leg, run away, stop, go back · To what, where: football, old greenhouse, child
This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» of the religion ethics 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 (you, football, kids, Mia), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 football | det |
| 3 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 football | acl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 greenhouse | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 greenhouse | amod |
| 7 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 greenhouse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Kowalski | Kowalski | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mrs | flat |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Mrs | case |
| 10 | greenhouse | greenhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 leg | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 kids | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kids | det |
| 14 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 leg | nsubj |
| 15 | leg | leg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 leg | obj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 run | punct |
| 18 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 leg | parataxis |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 run | advmod |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 run | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stops | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 stops | cc |
| 23 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 stops | nsubj |
| 24 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 goes | cc |
| 26 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 stops | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 goes | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 brave | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 brave | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 brave | cop |
| 31 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 honest | cc |
| 33 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 brave | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 forgive | punct |
| 35 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 neighbours | amod |
| 36 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 forgive | nsubj |
| 37 | forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 child | det |
| 39 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 forgive | obj |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 comes | nsubj |
| 41 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 child | acl:relcl |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 41 comes | advmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 owns | cc |
| 44 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 comes | conj |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 44 owns | compound:prt |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a football | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent football=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | a football not said here | Mrs's old greenhouse | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through greenhouse=Location | ||||
| 3 | leg | present | all kids | football | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run away | infinitive | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stop | present | Mia | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | go back | present | Mia not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | is | present | brave property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 9 | forgive | present | most neighbours | a child | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 10 | come back | present | a child | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 11 | own up | present | a child not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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:religion-ethics:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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