How best friends start, sentence 20
Sam wants chess club; Jake says chess is «mid» — Gen Z for boring, nothing special.
Who acts: Sam, Jake · What happens: want, say, be · To what, where: chess club · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sam, Jake), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 club | compound |
| 4 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 6 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wants | parataxis |
| 8 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mid | cop |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 mid | punct |
| 11 | mid | mid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 says | ccomp |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 mid | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Z | punct |
| 14 | Gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Z | compound |
| 15 | Z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mid | appos |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 boring | case |
| 17 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Z | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nothing | punct |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 Z | appos |
| 20 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 nothing | amod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Sam | chess club | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot club=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Jake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | mid property | tree rules |
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:20.
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): R8-pos-agree ×1. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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