The best friend who moves away, sentence 9
Instead of sulking, they pick a new time that works for both.
Who acts: toilets, new time · What happens: sulk, pick, work
This is a sentence of the lesson «The best friend who moves away» 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 (toilets, new time), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 3 sulking | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | sulking | sulk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 pick | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sulking | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pick | nsubj |
| 6 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pick | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 works | nsubj |
| 11 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 both | case |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 works | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sulk | gerund | toilets = toilet not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | pick | present | toilets = toilet | time | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | work | present | a new time | for both | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for both=Beneficiary |
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:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away.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): 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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