Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 21
Connor's mum says, «A friend who's embarrassed to be seen with you isn't the friend you need, love.» Maddie notices her friend Ellie ignores her whenever the netball team's around; she tells Ellie, and Ellie, who hadn't noticed, says sorry and starts saying hi even with the team.
Who acts: mum, friend, you, Maddie, netball team, Ellie · What happens: say, be, see, not be, need, love · To what, where: friend, Maddie, Ellie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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 (mum, friend, you, Maddie), 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 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Connor | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 7 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 friend | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 embarrassed | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 embarrassed | cop |
| 11 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friend | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 seen | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 embarrassed | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | obl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 friend | cop |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 friend | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 friend | det |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 need | nsubj |
| 22 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 friend | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 love | punct |
| 24 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 friend | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 friend | punct |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 27 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 notices | nsubj |
| 28 | notices | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | parataxis |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 friend | nmod:poss |
| 30 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ignores | nsubj |
| 31 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 friend | appos |
| 32 | ignores | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 notices | ccomp |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 ignores | obj |
| 34 | whenever | whenever | SCONJ | _ | 39 around | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 team | det |
| 36 | netball | netball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 team | compound |
| 37 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 around | nsubj |
| 38 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 around | cop |
| 39 | around | around | ADV | _ | 32 ignores | advcl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 tells | punct |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 tells | nsubj |
| 42 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 notices | conj |
| 43 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 tells | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Ellie | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 Ellie | cc |
| 46 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Ellie | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 noticed | punct |
| 48 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 noticed | nsubj |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 noticed | aux |
| 50 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 51 noticed | advmod |
| 51 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 Ellie | acl:relcl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 says | punct |
| 53 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 tells | conj |
| 54 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 says | xcomp |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 starts | cc |
| 56 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 says | conj |
| 57 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 56 starts | xcomp |
| 58 | hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 57 saying | discourse |
| 59 | even | even | ADV | _ | 62 team | advmod |
| 60 | with | with | ADP | _ | 62 team | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 team | det |
| 62 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 saying | obl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Connor's mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | a friend | embarrassed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | a friend not said here | with you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | a friend | the friend | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | need in a quote | present | you | the friend not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme | ||||
| 6 | love in a quote | infinitive | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | notice | present | Maddie | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | ignore | present | friend's friend | Maddie | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 9 | is | present | the netball team | around property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | tell speech: assert | present | friend | Ellie and Ellie | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ellie=Recipient | ||||
| 11 | not notice | past · perfect | Ellie | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 12 | say speech: apologize | present | friend not said here | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 13 | start | present | friend not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 14 | say speech: assert | gerund | friend not said here | with the team | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with team=Manner |
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:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.lesson:21.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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