Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 23
Taking turns, or choosing games that fit three people, helps a three stay fair.
Who acts: games, Taking · What happens: take, choose, fit, help · To what, where: turns, games, three people, three stay
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 (games, Taking), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 helps | csubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 choosing | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 choosing | cc |
| 5 | choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Taking | conj |
| 6 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 choosing | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 fit | nsubj |
| 8 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 games | acl:relcl |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 people | nummod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fit | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 12 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stay | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 stay | nummod |
| 15 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 helps | obj |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stay | amod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | turns | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | |||||
| 2 | choose | gerund | games | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fit | present | games | three people | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 4 | help | present | Taking | a three stay | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stay=Beneficiary |
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:23.
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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