Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 22
Saying calmly how you feel, such as «I'm always at the back», works better than sulking.
Who acts: you, I, Saying · What happens: say, feel, be, work, sulk · 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, I, Saying), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 works | csubj |
| 2 | calmly | calmly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Saying | advmod |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 feel | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 works | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 back | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 back | nsubj |
| 11 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 back | cop |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 back | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 back | det |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 works | obl |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 back | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 works | punct |
| 18 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 works | advmod |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 sulking | mark |
| 21 | sulking | sulk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 better | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 works | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | calmly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feel | present | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | I | as the back; always property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | work | present | Saying | well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sulk | gerund | Saying not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:22.
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, 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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