Standing by a friend, sentence 11
When Lily's usual friends fall out and leave her alone, Sam sits with her at lunch.
Who acts: usual friends, Sam · What happens: fall out, leave, sit · To what, where: Lily, lunch
This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» 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 (usual friends, Sam), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 fall | mark |
| 2 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 friends | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Lily | case |
| 4 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friends | amod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fall | nsubj |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sits | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 fall | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 leave | cc |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fall | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 leave | obj |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 leave | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sits | punct |
| 13 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sits | nsubj |
| 14 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sits | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 lunch | case |
| 18 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sits | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall out | present | Lily's usual friends | out property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | present | Lily's usual friends not said here | Lily | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | sit | present | Sam | lunch | with Lily | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at lunch=Location |
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:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:11.
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): 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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