Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates, sentence 19

A girl in Canada asked her Hindu friend about Diwali; she was invited to share the sweets and the lamps, and they became better friends.

Who acts: girl, sweets · What happens: ask, invite, share, become · To what, where: Hindu friend, girl, sweets, better friends

This is a sentence of the lesson «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» 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 (girl, sweets), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Canada	case
4	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
7	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 friend	amod
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 Diwali	case
10	Diwali	Diwali	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 invited	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 invited	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 invited	aux:pass
14	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 asked	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 share	mark
16	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 invited	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sweets	det
18	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 share	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lamps	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lamps	det
21	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sweets	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 became	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 became	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 became	nsubj
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	parataxis
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 friends	amod
27	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 became	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	a girl in Canada		girl's Hindu friend	about Diwali	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient about diwali=Topic
2	invite	past · passive		girl			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	share not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here	the sweets and the lamps			tree rules
4	become	past	sweets = sweet	better friends			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:everyday:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.lesson:19.

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 ×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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