Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 20

And when Ellie and Jess row over a gel pen and each wants Maddie on her side, Maddie says, «I'm not picking sides, it's a pen.» Lily solves threes another way: games that need three, like piggy in the middle with turns, and on bad days they go and find a fourth.

Who acts: Ellie, each, Maddie, side, Lily, games · What happens: row, want, say, not pick, be, solve · To what, where: gel pen, Maddie, side, sides, pen, threes · 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 (Ellie, each, Maddie, side), 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	_	20 says	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 row	advmod
3	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 row	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Jess	cc
5	Jess	Jess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Ellie	conj
6	row	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 says	advcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 pen	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pen	det
9	gel	gel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pen	compound
10	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 row	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wants	cc
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 wants	nsubj
13	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 row	conj
14	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 wants	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 side	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 side	nmod:poss
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wants	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Maddie	punct
19	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 says	nsubj
20	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 picking	punct
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 picking	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 picking	nsubj
24	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 picking	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 picking	advmod
26	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 says	ccomp
27	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 picking	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pen	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pen	nsubj
30	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 pen	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pen	det
32	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 picking	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 picking	punct
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 picking	punct
35	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 solves	nsubj
36	solves	solve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 says	conj
37	threes	three	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 solves	obj
38	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 solves	obl
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 games	punct
41	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 way	appos
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 need	nsubj
43	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 games	acl:relcl
44	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 need	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 piggy	punct
46	like	like	ADP	_	47 piggy	case
47	piggy	piggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 games	conj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 middle	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 middle	det
50	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 piggy	nmod
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 turns	case
52	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 middle	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 go	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 go	cc
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 days	case
56	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 days	amod
57	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 go	obl
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 go	nsubj
59	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 says	ccomp
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 find	cc
61	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 go	conj
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 fourth	det
63	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 find	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	row	present	Ellie and Jess		a gel pen			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over pen=Trajectory
2	want	present	each	Maddie	Jess's side			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot maddie=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	Maddie					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not pick in a quote	present · progressive	Maddie	sides				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient
5	is a in a quote	present	side	a pen				tree rules
6	solve	present	Lily	threes			another way obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Topic
7	need	present	games and piggy in the middle with turns	three				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot three=Theme
8	go	present	Maddie			day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	find	present	Maddie not said here	a fourth				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fourth=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:20.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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