How best friends start, sentence 24

And some best mates are family: Sam and his cousin Ollie build a top-secret den in Grandad's garden every holiday, and Grandad pretends not to know who built it.

Who acts: best mates, Sam, Grandad · What happens: be, build, pretend, not know · To what, where: family, secret den, garden, den · 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 (best mates, Sam, Grandad), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 family	cc
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 mates	det
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 mates	amod
4	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 family	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 family	cop
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 build	parataxis
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Sam	punct
8	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 build	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cousin	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cousin	nmod:poss
11	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Sam	conj
12	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cousin	appos
13	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 den	det
15	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 secret	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 top	punct
17	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 den	amod
18	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 build	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 garden	case
20	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 garden	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Grandad	case
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 build	obl
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 holiday	det
24	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 build	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pretends	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pretends	cc
27	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 pretends	nsubj
28	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 build	conj
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 know	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 know	mark
31	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 pretends	xcomp
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 built	nsubj
33	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 know	ccomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 built	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 family	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	some best mates	family			tree rules
2	build	infinitive	Sam and three's cousin	a secret den	Grandad's garden	every holiday obl:unmarked	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Product
3	pretend	present	Grandad				tree rules
4	not know	to-infinitive	Grandad not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	build	past		den			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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:24.

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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.

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