Dances of the world and dancing at parties, sentence 3

At a party, nobody is watching you as closely as you think; the uncle doing dad dancing, all elbows and pointing, is usually having the best time in the room.

Who acts: nobody, you, uncle · What happens: watch, think, do, have · To what, where: you, party, dad dancing, room

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» of the arts 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 (nobody, you, uncle), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 party	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 party	det
3	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watching	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 party	punct
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 watching	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 watching	aux
7	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 watching	obj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 closely	advmod
10	closely	closely	ADV	_	7 watching	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 think	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
13	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 closely	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 having	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 uncle	det
16	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 having	nsubj
17	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 uncle	acl
18	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dancing	compound
19	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 doing	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 elbows	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 elbows	det
22	elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 uncle	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pointing	cc
24	pointing	pointing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 elbows	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 uncle	punct
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 having	aux
27	usually	usually	ADV	_	28 having	advmod
28	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 watching	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 time	det
30	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 time	amod
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 having	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 room	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 room	det
34	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 having	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 watching	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present · progressive	nobody	you	a party		closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	think speech: other	present	you					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	gerund	the uncle all elbows and pointing not said here	dad dancing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancing=Eventuality
4	have	present · progressive	the uncle all elbows and pointing		the room	time	usually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:3.

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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