Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 1

On the path to school there's only room for two side by side, so someone walks behind, and lately it's always Lily, staring at two heads whispering and giggling.

Who acts: room, someone, two heads · What happens: be, walk behind, stare, whispering, giggling · To what, where: path, Lily

This is a sentence of the lesson «Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else» 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 (room, someone, two heads), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 path	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 path	det
3	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 's	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 school	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 path	nmod
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 's	expl
7	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 room	advmod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 's	nsubj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 side	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 side	nummod
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	nmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 side	case
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 side	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 walks	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 walks	advmod
17	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 walks	nsubj
18	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 's	conj
19	behind	behind	ADV	_	18 walks	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Lily	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Lily	cc
22	lately	lately	ADV	_	26 Lily	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 Lily	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 Lily	cop
25	always	always	ADV	_	26 Lily	advmod
26	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 's	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 staring	punct
28	staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 Lily	advcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 heads	case
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 heads	nummod
31	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 staring	obl
32	whispering	whispering	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 heads	acl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 giggling	cc
34	giggling	giggling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 whispering	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 's	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	room for two side by side		the path to school; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Location
2	walk behind	present	someone			behind property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	room	Lily		always, lately property	tree rules
4	stare	gerund	room not said here			at two heads	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at head=Theme
5	whispering	gerund	two heads not said here				tree rules
6	giggling	gerund	two heads not said here				tree rules

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:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.lesson:1.

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 ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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