Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 28

Leaving one person out on purpose, in front of them, is cruel; it is not their fault, and telling a grown-up is right.

Who acts: Leaving, person, telling · What happens: leave out, be, not be, tell, grow · To what, where: one person, purpose, fault, grown up · 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 (Leaving, person, telling), 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	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger	14 cruel	csubj
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 person	nummod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 Leaving	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 front	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 front	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Leaving	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cruel	cop
14	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 fault	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fault	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fault	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 fault	advmod
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fault	nmod:poss
20	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cruel	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 right	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 right	cc
23	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 right	csubj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 up	det
25	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 up	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 grown	punct
27	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 telling	obj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 right	cop
29	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fault	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 cruel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave out	gerund		one person	purpose	in front of plans; out property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	is	present	Leaving			cruel property	tree rules
3	not is a	present	person	plans's fault			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	gerund		a grown up			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient
5	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	telling			right property	tree rules

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:28.

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): 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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