Showing off, sentence 23

Maddie and Jake once had a monkey-bars contest, both fell off into the bark chips, both laughed and decided being friends was better than winning.

Who acts: Maddie, both, friends · What happens: have, fall off, laugh, decide, be, win · To what, where: bars contest, bark chips, friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Showing off» 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 (Maddie, both, 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	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Jake	cc
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Maddie	conj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 contest	det
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bars	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 monkey	punct
9	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 contest	compound
10	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 fell	compound:prt
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 chips	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chips	det
17	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chips	compound
18	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fell	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laughed	punct
20	both	both	CCONJ	_	21 laughed	cc:preconj
21	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 decided	cc
23	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 laughed	conj
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 friends	cop
25	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 better	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 better	cop
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 decided	ccomp
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 winning	mark
29	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 better	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Maddie and Jake	a bars contest		once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Patient
2	fall off	past	both		the bark chips		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	laugh	past					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	decide	past					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	gerund		friends			tree rules
6	is	past	friends			good property	tree rules
7	win	gerund	friends not said here				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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:390-showing-off.lesson:23.

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 ×2. 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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