The new kid and the first day, sentence 29

If you are new and have nobody to sit with, tell a teacher or dinner lady; they can help you find a group.

Who acts: you, friends · What happens: be, have, sit, tell, help, find · To what, where: nobody, teacher, you, group · 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 (you, friends), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 new	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 new	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 new	cop
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tell	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 have	cc
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 new	conj
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 have	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sit	mark
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nobody	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	9 sit	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 teacher	det
14	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 lady	cc
16	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lady	compound
17	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 teacher	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 help	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 help	aux
21	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 help	obj
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 help	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 group	det
25	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			new property	tree rules
2	have	present	you not said here	nobody			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient
3	sit	to-infinitive	you not said here	nobody not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a teacher or dinner lady		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
5	help	can	friends = friend	you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
6	find	infinitive	you not said here	a group			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=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:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:29.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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