Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 3

They start taking turns, and on wide bits they walk three abreast like cowboys in a film.

Who acts: Maddie · What happens: start, take, walk · To what, where: turns, wide bits

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 (Maddie), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 start	nsubj
2	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 start	xcomp
4	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taking	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walk	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 walk	cc
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bits	case
8	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bits	amod
9	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 walk	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walk	nsubj
11	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 start	conj
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 abreast	nummod
13	abreast	abreast	ADV	_	11 walk	advmod
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 cowboys	case
15	cowboys	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 walk	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 film	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 film	det
18	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walk	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 start	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	present	Maddie				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	take	gerund	Maddie not said here	turns			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme
3	walk	present	Maddie		wide bits	like cowboys; in a film; abreast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bit=Trajectory

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:3.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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