Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 42
Being beaten by a friend can be fun, and asking people to play is how many friendships start.
Who acts: friend, asking, many friendships · What happens: beat, be, ask, play, start · To what, where: people
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 (friend, asking, many friendships), 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 beaten | aux:pass |
| 2 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fun | csubj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 friend | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beaten | obl:agent |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fun | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fun | cop |
| 8 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 start | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 is | cc |
| 11 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 is | csubj |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asking | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 play | mark |
| 14 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asking | xcomp |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fun | conj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 friendships | amod |
| 18 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 start | nsubj |
| 19 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 is | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | gerund · passive | a friend | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | is | can | fun property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | people | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | be | present | asking | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | start | present | many friendships | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:42.
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): R6-punct-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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