Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 19
When Ade goes off to play with the Year 6 lads, Sam and Jake stop moping and find a bigger game with the girls from Maddie's class.
Who acts: Ade, Sam · What happens: go off, play, stop, mope, find · To what, where: bigger game
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 (Ade, Sam), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 goes | mark |
| 2 | Ade | Ade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 stop | advcl |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 goes | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 play | mark |
| 6 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 goes | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 lads | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lads | det |
| 9 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lads | compound |
| 10 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 Year | flat |
| 11 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 play | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sam | punct |
| 13 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Jake | cc |
| 15 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sam | conj |
| 16 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | moping | mope | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 stop | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 find | cc |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stop | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 game | det |
| 21 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 game | amod |
| 22 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 girls | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 girls | det |
| 25 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 game | nmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 class | case |
| 27 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 class | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 Maddie | case |
| 29 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 girls | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | present | Ade | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | Ade not said here | with the Year lads | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lad=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | present | Sam and Jake | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | mope | gerund | Sam and Jake not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | find | infinitive | Sam and Jake not said here | a bigger game | with the girls from Maddie's class | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Topic |
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:19.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
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