Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 11
Before deciding you were dumped, ask.
Who acts: you · What happens: decide, dump, ask · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 deciding | mark |
| 2 | deciding | decide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ask | advcl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 dumped | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dumped | aux:pass |
| 5 | dumped | dump | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 deciding | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 deciding | punct |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | gerund | you not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | dump | past · passive | you | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.lesson:11.
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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