Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 41
Being bad at a game can still help you make friends if you laugh at yourself.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, help, make, laugh · To what, where: game, you, friends
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 (you), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 bad | cop |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 help | csubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 game | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 game | det |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bad | obl |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | aux |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 help | advmod |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 help | obj |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 help | xcomp |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 laugh | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 laugh | nsubj |
| 14 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 yourself | case |
| 16 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 laugh | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | a game | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | can | you | still | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | you not said here | friends | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product | ||||
| 4 | laugh a condition, not said to happen | present | you | at yourself | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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:41.
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): no change. 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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