Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 4

That's how joining usually works: stand close, watch, offer to help — turn the rope, fetch the ball — and then ask.

Who acts: That · What happens: join, be, stand, watch, offer, help · To what, where: rope, ball

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 (That), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 works	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 works	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 works	advmod
4	joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 works	csubj
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	6 works	advmod
6	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 stand	punct
8	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 works	parataxis
9	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stand	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 watch	punct
11	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 stand	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 offer	punct
13	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 stand	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 help	mark
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 offer	xcomp
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 turn	punct
17	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 help	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rope	det
19	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fetch	punct
21	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 turn	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ball	det
23	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fetch	obj
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 ask	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ask	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 ask	advmod
27	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 works	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 works	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	join	gerund					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	That			usually, work property	tree rules
3	stand	infinitive					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	infinitive					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	offer	infinitive					tree rules
6	help not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	turn not said to happen	infinitive		the rope			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rope=Theme
8	fetch	infinitive		the ball			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
9	ask speech: ask	infinitive	That not said here		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:4.

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. 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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