Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 19

When Lily asked if she liked anyone, the two of them agreed to talk about crushes only when they wanted to, and never to push.

Who acts: Lily, Maddie, two, friends · What happens: ask, like, agree, talk, want, not push · To what, where: anyone

This is a sentence of the lesson «Boys who look at Maddie oddly» 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 (Lily, Maddie, two, friends), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 asked	advmod
2	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 agreed	advcl
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 liked	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 liked	nsubj
6	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	ccomp
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 liked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 two	det
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 agreed	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 two	nmod
13	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 talk	mark
15	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 agreed	xcomp
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 crushes	case
17	crushes	crush	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 talk	obl
18	only	only	ADV	_	21 wanted	advmod
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 wanted	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 talk	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	21 wanted	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 push	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 push	cc
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 push	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 push	mark
27	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 talk	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Lily			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like a condition, not said to happen	past	Maddie	anyone		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot anyone=Theme
3	agree speech: agree	past	the two of friends			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	the two of friends not said here		about crushes	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about crush=Topic
5	want	past	friends = friend			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	not push	to-infinitive	the two of friends not said here			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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:389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly.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): 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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