Growing apart, sentence 16
Mia's best friend Ava starts going round with a crowd who say Mia's pony stickers are «cringe» and «giving baby» — Gen Alpha talk for «looks babyish».
Who acts: best friend, crowd, pony stickers · What happens: start, go round, say, be, give, look · To what, where: baby · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing apart» 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 (best friend, crowd, pony stickers), 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 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mia | case |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 friend | amod |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 starts | nsubj |
| 5 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 starts | nsubj |
| 6 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 starts | xcomp |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 going | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 crowd | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 crowd | det |
| 11 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 crowd | acl:relcl |
| 14 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stickers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Mia | case |
| 16 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stickers | compound |
| 17 | stickers | sticker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cringe | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 cringe | cop |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 cringe | punct |
| 20 | cringe | cringe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 say | ccomp |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 cringe | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 giving | cc |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 giving | punct |
| 24 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 cringe | conj |
| 25 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 giving | obj |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 giving | punct |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 talk | punct |
| 28 | Gen | Gen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 talk | compound |
| 29 | Alpha | Alpha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Gen | flat |
| 30 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 giving | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 looks | case |
| 32 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 33 looks | punct |
| 33 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 giving | advcl |
| 34 | babyish | babyish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 looks | xcomp |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 33 looks | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Mia's best friend | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go round | gerund | Mia's best friend not said here | with a crowd; round property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with crowd=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | a crowd | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Mia's pony stickers | cringe property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | gerund | Mia's pony stickers not said here | baby | Gen talk obl:unmarked | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | |||
| 6 | look in a quote | present | Mia's pony stickers not said here | babyish property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:464-growing-apart.lesson:16.
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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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