How best friends start, sentence 5
«We'll be the two old ladies at bingo.» Big friendships often start with something tiny.
Who acts: We, Big friendships · What happens: be, start · To what, where: two old ladies, bingo · 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 (We, Big 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 ladies | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ladies | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 ladies | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ladies | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ladies | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 ladies | nummod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ladies | amod |
| 8 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 start | parataxis |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 bingo | case |
| 10 | bingo | bingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ladies | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ladies | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 ladies | punct |
| 13 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 friendships | amod |
| 14 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 start | nsubj |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 start | advmod |
| 16 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 something | case |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 start | obl |
| 19 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 something | amod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 start | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | future | We | the two old ladies | bingo | tree rules | |||
| 2 | start | present | Big friendships | with something; often 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:5.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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