Standing by a friend, sentence 20
Soon half the class is dancing like octopuses, and the laughing is a different kind.
Who acts: class, laughing · What happens: dancing, be · To what, where: different kind
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 (class, laughing), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 dancing | advmod |
| 2 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 4 class | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 class | det |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dancing | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dancing | aux |
| 6 | dancing | dancing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 octopuses | case |
| 8 | octopuses | octopus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dancing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kind | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kind | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 laughing | det |
| 12 | laughing | laughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kind | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 kind | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 kind | det |
| 15 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 kind | amod |
| 16 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dancing | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dancing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dancing | present · progressive | half class | like octopuses; soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the laughing | a different kind | tree rules |
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:20.
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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