Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 21
Groups of three are tricky, because two can easily pair off and leave one out.
Who acts: Groups, two · What happens: be, pair off, leave out · To what, where: one
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 (Groups, two), 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 | Groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tricky | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 three | case |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Groups | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tricky | cop |
| 5 | tricky | tricky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pair | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 pair | mark |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pair | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pair | aux |
| 10 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 11 pair | advmod |
| 11 | pair | pair | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tricky | advcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 pair | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leave | cc |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pair | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 leave | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 leave | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tricky | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Groups of three | tricky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pair off | can | two | easily property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave out | infinitive | two not said here | one | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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:21.
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. 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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