The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend, sentence 22
Maddie in Perth plays Minecraft with her cousin Aoife in Galway: Aoife says «the craic was mighty» (Irish for great fun) and Maddie says «sweet as» (Aussie for great).
Who acts: Maddie, Aoife, craic · What happens: play, say, be · To what, where: Minecraft, Galway · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend» 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, Aoife, craic), 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 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plays | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Perth | case |
| 3 | Perth | Perth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Maddie | nmod |
| 4 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Minecraft | Minecraft | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plays | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cousin | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plays | obl |
| 9 | Aoife | Aoife | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cousin | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Galway | case |
| 11 | Galway | Galway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plays | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 13 | Aoife | Aoife | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 says | nsubj |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 plays | parataxis |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 mighty | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 craic | det |
| 17 | craic | craic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mighty | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mighty | cop |
| 19 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 says | ccomp |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 mighty | punct |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Irish | punct |
| 22 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 says | parataxis |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 fun | case |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fun | amod |
| 25 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Irish | obl |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Irish | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 says | cc |
| 28 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 says | nsubj |
| 29 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 plays | conj |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 sweet | punct |
| 31 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 says | ccomp |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 » | advmod |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 sweet | punct |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 Aussie | punct |
| 35 | Aussie | aussie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sweet | parataxis |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 great | case |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Aussie | nmod |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 Aussie | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plays | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | Maddie in Perth | Minecraft | Galway | with Maddie's cousin | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent minecraft=Theme with cousin=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Aoife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the craic | mighty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Maddie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend.lesson:22.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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