Dates, engagements and weddings, sentence 4
"Going out with someone" means two people are a couple who spend time together because they like each other a lot.
Who acts: Going, two people, couple, couples · What happens: go out, mean, be, spend, like · To what, where: couple, other · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dates, engagements and weddings» of the adult life 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 (Going, two people, couple, couples), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Going | punct |
| 2 | Going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 means | csubj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 Going | compound:prt |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 someone | case |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 Going | obl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Going | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 people | nummod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 couple | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 couple | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 couple | det |
| 12 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | ccomp |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 spend | nsubj |
| 14 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 couple | acl:relcl |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spend | obj |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 spend | advmod |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 like | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 like | nsubj |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 spend | advcl |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 other | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 like | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lot | det |
| 23 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 like | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out in a quote | gerund | with someone | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with someone=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Going | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | two people | a couple | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spend | present | a couple | time | together property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | like | present | couples = couple | each other | a lot obl:unmarked | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot other=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:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:4.
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 ×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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