How best friends start, sentence 10
They stayed on the team two years, still terrible, still laughing.
Who acts: football · What happens: stay, laugh · To what, where: team
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 (football), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 team | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 team | det |
| 5 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | obl |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 terrible | punct |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 terrible | advmod |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stayed | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughing | punct |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 laughing | advmod |
| 13 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stayed | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | football | the team | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on team=Location | |||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | football not said here | still | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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:461-how-best-friends-start.lesson:10.
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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