Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 7

Meanwhile Sam and Freddie had run, together, to fetch the teacher on duty — going in a pair meant neither of them chickened out on the way.

Who acts: Sam, going, neither · What happens: run, fetch, go, mean, chicken out · To what, where: teacher, duty, pair, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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 (Sam, going, neither), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	6 run	advmod
2	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 run	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Freddie	cc
4	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sam	conj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 run	aux
6	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 together	punct
8	together	together	ADV	_	6 run	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fetch	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fetch	mark
11	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 run	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 teacher	det
13	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fetch	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 duty	case
15	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 teacher	nmod
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 meant	csubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 pair	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pair	det
20	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	obl
21	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fetch	advcl
22	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	25 chickened	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 neither	nmod
25	chickened	chicken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 meant	ccomp
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 chickened	compound:prt
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 way	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 way	det
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chickened	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past · perfect	Sam and Freddie			meanwhile, together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	to-infinitive	Sam and Freddie not said here	the teacher	duty		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme on duty=Source
3	go	gerund			a pair		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pair=Location
4	mean	past	going				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	chicken out	past	neither		the way		vn withdraw-82-1 «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:393-bystanders.lesson:7.

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, R8-pos-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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