How best friends start, sentence 6

Sam and Jake became mates when Jake laughed at Sam's joke about the dinner lady's gravy («it's not gravy, it's a brown lake»).

Who acts: Sam, Jake, gravy · What happens: become, laugh, not be, be, joke · To what, where: mates, joke, gravy, lake » · 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 (Sam, Jake, gravy), 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	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Jake	cc
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sam	conj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	xcomp
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 laughed	mark
7	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 laughed	nsubj
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 joke	case
10	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 joke	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Sam	case
12	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laughed	obl
13	about	about	ADP	_	18 gravy	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lady	det
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lady	compound
16	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gravy	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 lady	case
18	gravy	gravy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joke	nmod
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 gravy	punct
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 gravy	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gravy	nsubj
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 gravy	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 gravy	advmod
24	gravy	gravy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laughed	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 »	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 »	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 »	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lake	det
29	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lake	amod
30	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 »	compound
31	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gravy	conj
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 gravy	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	Sam and Jake	mates			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	laugh	past	Jake		Sam's joke about the dinner lady's gravy		tree rules
3	not is a in a quote	present	gravy	gravy and lake »			tree rules
4	is a	present	gravy	lake »			tree rules
5	joke		Sam			about the dinner lady's gravy	nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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:6.

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, R8-pos-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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