How best friends start, sentence 26
Finding the same daft things funny is a common way friendships begin.
Who acts: Finding, friendships · What happens: find, be, begin · To what, where: same daft things, common way
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 (Finding, friendships), 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 | Finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 way | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 things | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 4 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Finding | obj |
| 6 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 begin | nsubj |
| 12 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | the same daft things | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Finding | a common way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | present | friendships | a common way not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |
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:26.
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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