The new kid and the first day, sentence 21

At a new swimming club Sam stands at the side until he asks a boy, «You doing the fifty metres?» They talk times, then Minecraft.

Who acts: Sam, boy, metres · What happens: stand, ask, do, talk · To what, where: new swimming club, boy, fifty metres · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The new kid and the first day» 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, boy, metres), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 club	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 club	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 club	amod
4	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 club	compound
5	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stands	obl
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stands	nsubj
7	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 asks	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 side	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 side	det
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stands	obl
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 asks	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asks	nsubj
13	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asks	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 doing	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 doing	punct
18	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 doing	nsubj
19	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 asks	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 metres	det
21	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 metres	nummod
22	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 doing	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 asks	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 asks	punct
25	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 talk	nsubj
26	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 asks	advcl
27	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 talk	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Minecraft	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 Minecraft	advmod
30	Minecraft	minecraft	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 talk	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stands	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	stand	present	Sam			a new swimming club		at the side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at club=Location
2	ask speech: ask	present	Sam		a boy				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
3	do in a quote	gerund	a boy = boy	the fifty metres					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metre=Eventuality
4	talk	present	metres = metre				time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:21.

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 ×2. 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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