How best friends start, sentence 9

Connor met Raj at football: both were rubbish, both got stuck in defence, and they spent the whole match chatting about Minecraft.

Who acts: Connor, both, football · What happens: meet, be, get, spend, chat · To what, where: Raj, football, rubbish, whole match

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 (Connor, both, football), 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	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 met	nsubj
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Raj	Raj	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 met	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 football	case
5	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 met	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 rubbish	punct
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 rubbish	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rubbish	cop
9	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 football	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 met	conj
13	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 got	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 defence	case
15	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stuck	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spent	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spent	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spent	nsubj
19	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 met	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 match	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 match	amod
22	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spent	obj
23	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 spent	advcl
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 Minecraft	case
25	Minecraft	Minecraft	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 chatting	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 met	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	Connor	Raj	football and rubbish		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raj=Co-Agent
2	is a	past	both	rubbish			tree rules
3	get	past	both			stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	spend	past	football	the whole match			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Asset
5	chat speech: other	gerund	football not said here			about Minecraft	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about minecraft=Topic

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:9.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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