Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 24

When a friend spends time with someone new, you cannot force them back; doing your own things and leaving the door open helps.

Who acts: friend, you · What happens: spend, not force back, do, leave, help · To what, where: people, own things, door

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 (friend, you), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 spends	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spends	nsubj
4	spends	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 force	advcl
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spends	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 someone	case
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 spends	obl
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 someone	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spends	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 force	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 force	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 force	advmod
13	force	force	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 force	obj
15	back	back	ADV	_	13 force	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 doing	punct
17	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 helps	nsubj
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 things	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 doing	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 leaving	cc
22	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 doing	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leaving	obj
25	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 leaving	xcomp
26	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 force	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 force	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spend	present	a friend		time	with someone	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not force back	can	you	people			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	do	gerund		your own things			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	leave	gerund		the door		open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
5	help	present					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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:24.

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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