Friends through games and clubs, sentence 23
At his cousin's birthday they meet for real and nobody knows what to say; they stand round the trampoline staring at their trainers until someone mentions the new map, and everyone talks at once.
Who acts: mates, nobody, someone, everyone · What happens: meet, know, say, stand, stare, mention · To what, where: birthday, new map · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends through games and clubs» 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 (mates, nobody, someone, everyone), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 birthday | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 cousin | case |
| 5 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meet | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 meet | nsubj |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 real | case |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 meet | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knows | cc |
| 11 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 knows | nsubj |
| 12 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 meet | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 say | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 say | mark |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knows | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 stand | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stand | nsubj |
| 18 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 meet | parataxis |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 trampoline | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trampoline | det |
| 21 | trampoline | trampoline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stand | obl |
| 22 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 stand | advcl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 trainers | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 trainers | nmod:poss |
| 25 | trainers | trainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 staring | obl |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 28 mentions | mark |
| 27 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 mentions | nsubj |
| 28 | mentions | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 staring | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 map | det |
| 30 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 map | amod |
| 31 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mentions | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 talks | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 talks | cc |
| 34 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 35 talks | nsubj |
| 35 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 mentions | conj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 once | case |
| 37 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 35 talks | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | mates = mate | Connor's cousin's birthday | for real | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | know | present | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | stand | present | mates = mate | round the trampoline | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | stare | gerund | mates = mate not said here | at mates's trainers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at trainer=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mention speech: other | present | someone | the new map | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent map=Topic | ||||
| 7 | talk | present | everyone | vn talk-37.5 «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:467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.lesson:23.
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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