Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 22
And Lily's mum admits there's a woman at work who's sweet in the kitchen and moans about her in meetings: «Grown-ups have frenemies too, pet.»
Who acts: mum, woman, work, Grown ups · What happens: admit, be, moan, have · To what, where: kitchen, meetings, frenemies · 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, woman, work, Grown ups), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 admits | cc |
| 2 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mum | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Lily | case |
| 4 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 admits | nsubj |
| 5 | admits | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 's | expl |
| 7 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 admits | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 's | nsubj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 work | case |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woman | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sweet | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sweet | cop |
| 14 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 work | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 kitchen | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kitchen | det |
| 17 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sweet | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 moans | cc |
| 19 | moans | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sweet | conj |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 moans | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 meetings | case |
| 23 | meetings | meeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 moans | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 26 | Grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ups | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 ups | punct |
| 28 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 have | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 admits | parataxis |
| 30 | frenemies | frenemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 have | obj |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 have | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pet | punct |
| 33 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 admits | punct |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 admits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other | present | Lily's mum | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be | present | a woman at work | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | work | the kitchen | sweet property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | moan | present | work not said here | meetings | about mum | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic | |||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | Grown ups | frenemies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frenemy=Patient |
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:22.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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