Greeting neighbours and new people, sentence 4

A boy in Colorado sees a new girl join his class; he tells her his name and offers to show her where the lunch room is, and her scary first day becomes much easier.

Who acts: boy, new girl, lunch room, scary first day · What happens: see, join, tell, offer, show, be · To what, where: class, name, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting neighbours and new people» of the everyday 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 (boy, new girl, lunch room, scary first day), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Colorado	case
4	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 join	nsubj
9	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sees	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 class	nmod:poss
11	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 join	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tells	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tells	nsubj
14	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sees	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tells	iobj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 name	nmod:poss
17	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tells	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 offers	cc
19	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tells	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 show	mark
21	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 offers	xcomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 show	iobj
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 show	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 room	det
25	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 room	compound
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 where	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 where	cop
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 becomes	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 becomes	cc
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 day	nmod:poss
31	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 day	amod
32	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 day	amod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 becomes	nsubj
34	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sees	conj
35	much	much	ADV	_	36 easier	advmod
36	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 becomes	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sees	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	present	a boy in Colorado				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	join	infinitive	a new girl	boy's class			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	present	boy	boy's name	girl		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient name=Topic
4	offer	present	boy not said here				tree rules
5	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here		girl		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	is	present	the lunch room			where property	tree rules
7	become	present	girl's scary first day			easy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	name		boy				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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