Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 7
Sam stops waiting at the table and goes to chess club, and by spring he has two new mates.
Who acts: Sam · What happens: stop, wait, go, have · To what, where: table, chess club, two new mates
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 (Sam), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stops | xcomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waiting | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 goes | cc |
| 8 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stops | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 club | case |
| 10 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 club | compound |
| 11 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 has | cc |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 spring | case |
| 15 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 has | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stops | conj |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 mates | nummod |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mates | amod |
| 20 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 has | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Sam | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | Sam not said here | the table | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | present | Sam not said here | chess club | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to club=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | have | present | Sam | two new mates | spring | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Patient |
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:7.
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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