Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 4
Threes are tricky; say how you feel before you start sulking.
Who acts: Threes, you · What happens: be, say, feel, start, 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 (Threes, 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 | Threes | three | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tricky | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tricky | cop |
| 3 | tricky | tricky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 tricky | parataxis |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 feel | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 start | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 start | nsubj |
| 11 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feel | advcl |
| 12 | sulking | sulk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 start | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tricky | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Threes | tricky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | feel | present | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | start | present | you | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | sulk | gerund | you 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:4.
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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