How best friends start, sentence 0

Maddie and Lily became best friends on the first day of Reception, because they both cried and the teacher sat them on the same squashy beanbag.

Who acts: Maddie, teacher · What happens: become, cry, sit · To what, where: best friends, Maddie, same squashy beanbag

This is a sentence of the lesson «How best friends start» 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, teacher), 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	4 became	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Lily	cc
3	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Maddie	conj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 friends	amod
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Reception	case
12	Reception	reception	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 cried	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	nsubj
16	both	both	ADV	_	17 cried	advmod
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sat	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 teacher	det
20	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sat	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	27 beanbag	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 beanbag	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 beanbag	amod
26	squashy	squashy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 beanbag	amod
27	beanbag	beanbag	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Maddie and Lily	best friends		day		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	Maddie				both property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	the teacher	Maddie	the same squashy beanbag			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on beanbag=Location

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:461-how-best-friends-start.lesson:0.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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