Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 37

Some shy people want quiet company first; sitting nearby and letting them come to you can work.

Who acts: shy people, people, sitting · What happens: want, sit, let, come, work · To what, where: quiet company, people, you

This is a sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» 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 (shy people, people, sitting), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 people	det
2	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 company	amod
6	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 want	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 work	csubj
10	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	9 sitting	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 letting	cc
12	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sitting	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 letting	obj
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 letting	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 come	obl
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 work	aux
18	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	some shy people	quiet company		first property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot company=Theme
2	sit	gerund				nearby property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let	gerund		people			tree rules
4	come	infinitive	people not said here		you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
5	work	can	sitting				vn employment-95.3 «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:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:37.

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): R7-rel-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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