Starting a band, sentence 1
Picture three friends arguing for an hour about calling themselves "Skibidi Wolves" or "The Toast" without playing a note: the name is the least important part, and lots of famous bands changed theirs early on.
Who acts: you, three friends, hour, name, lots · What happens: picture, argue, call, play, be, change · To what, where: three friends, friends, note, important part, notes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Starting a band» 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 (you, three friends, hour, name), 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 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 friends | nummod |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | arguing | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 friends | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 hour | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arguing | obl |
| 8 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 9 calling | mark |
| 9 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hour | acl |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 calling | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wolves | punct |
| 12 | Skibidi | Skibidi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Wolves | compound |
| 13 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 calling | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wolves | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 Toast | cc |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Toast | punct |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Toast | det |
| 18 | Toast | toast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Wolves | conj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Toast | punct |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 playing | mark |
| 21 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 arguing | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 note | det |
| 23 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 playing | obj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 part | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 name | det |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 part | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 part | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 part | det |
| 29 | least | least | ADV | Degree=Sup | 30 important | advmod |
| 30 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 part | amod |
| 31 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 changed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 changed | cc |
| 34 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 changed | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 bands | case |
| 36 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 bands | amod |
| 37 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 lots | nmod |
| 38 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 part | conj |
| 39 | theirs | theirs | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 changed | obj |
| 40 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 on | advmod |
| 41 | on | on | ADV | _ | 38 changed | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | three friends | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | gerund | three friends not said here | hour | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | a hour not said here | friends = friend | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme wolf=Result | ||||
| 4 | play | gerund | three friends not said here | a note | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the name | the important part | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | change | past | lots of famous bands | notes = note | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theirs=Patient |
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:004-starting-a-band.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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