Friends through games and clubs, sentence 32
Starting a club can help everyone find friends, especially quiet children who are rarely asked.
Who acts: Starting, everyone · What happens: start, help, find, ask · To what, where: club, friends, quiet children
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 (Starting, 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 | Starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 help | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 club | det |
| 3 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Starting | obj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 find | nsubj |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | xcomp |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 children | punct |
| 10 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 12 children | advmod |
| 11 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 children | amod |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 friends | appos |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 asked | aux:pass |
| 15 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 16 asked | advmod |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 children | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | a club | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | help | can | Starting | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | infinitive | everyone | friends | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present · passive | quiet children | rarely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:32.
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 ×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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