How best friends start, sentence 29
Inviting someone first is a kind, brave act, and many friendships start because one person asks.
Who acts: Inviting, many friendships, one person · What happens: invite, be, start, ask · To what, where: someone, kind brave act
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 (Inviting, many friendships, one person), 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 | Inviting | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 act | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Inviting | obj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Inviting | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 act | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 act | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 act | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 act | punct |
| 8 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 act | amod |
| 9 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 start | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 start | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 start | cc |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friendships | amod |
| 13 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 start | nsubj |
| 14 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 asks | mark |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 person | nummod |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asks | nsubj |
| 18 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 start | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 act | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | gerund | someone | first property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Inviting | a kind brave act | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | start | present | many friendships | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present | one person | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:29.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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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