Whose turn is it?, sentence 4

There were three kids and two controllers, and Zara always got the spare one that stuck.

Who acts: three kids, Zara, spare one · What happens: be, get, stick · To what, where: spare one

This is a sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» 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 (three kids, Zara, spare one), 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	There	there	PRON	_	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 kids	nummod
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 controllers	cc
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 controllers	nummod
7	controllers	controller	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kids	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 got	cc
10	Zara	Zara	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 got	nsubj
11	always	always	ADV	_	12 got	advmod
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 stuck	nsubj
17	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 one	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	three kids and two controllers		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	Zara	the spare one		always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	stick	past	the spare one				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:4.

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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