How best friends start, sentence 21
They argue, then Sam goes to chess and Jake to football, and they still sit together at lunch.
Who acts: Sam · What happens: argue, go, sit · To what, where: chess, lunch
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), 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 argue | nsubj |
| 2 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 goes | advmod |
| 5 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 6 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 argue | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 chess | case |
| 8 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Jake | cc |
| 10 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chess | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 football | case |
| 12 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sit | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sit | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sit | nsubj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 sit | advmod |
| 17 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 argue | conj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 sit | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 lunch | case |
| 20 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sit | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 argue | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | Sam | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | present | Sam | chess and Jake | then | to football | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to chess=Initial_Location to football=Destination | ||
| 3 | sit | present | Sam | lunch | still | together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at lunch=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:21.
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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