Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 29
Friends can talk about crushes, or not, whenever they choose.
Who acts: Friends · What happens: talk, not choose
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 (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 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 talk | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 talk | aux |
| 3 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 crushes | case |
| 5 | crushes | crush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 talk | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 choose | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 choose | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 choose | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 choose | punct |
| 10 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 choose | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 choose | nsubj |
| 12 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 talk | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | can | Friends | about crushes | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about crush=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not choose | present | friends = friend | whenever property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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:29.
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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