Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 5
Sam asks some boys, «Can I play?» «Nah, teams are even, mate.» He goes red and walks off fast.
Who acts: Sam, teams · What happens: ask, play, be, go, walk off · To what, where: boys · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sam, teams), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 boys | det |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 asks | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 play | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 play | punct |
| 7 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 play | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 play | nsubj |
| 9 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asks | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 play | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 play | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 play | punct |
| 13 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 17 even | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 even | punct |
| 15 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 even | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 even | cop |
| 17 | even | even | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 play | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 even | punct |
| 19 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 even | vocative |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 play | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 play | punct |
| 22 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 goes | nsubj |
| 23 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | conj |
| 24 | red | red | ADV | _ | 23 goes | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 walks | cc |
| 26 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 goes | conj |
| 27 | off | off | ADV | _ | 26 walks | compound:prt |
| 28 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 26 walks | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Sam | some boys | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | play in a quote | can | Sam | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | teams | mate vocative; even property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | present | Sam | red property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | walk off | present | Sam not said here | fast property | vn resign-10.11-2 «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:5.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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