What a real friend is, sentence 12
Mia remembers her first day in Ohio, pretending to read the fire notice by the wall; now, when a new girl comes, she walks straight over: «Hey, wanna play four square?
Who acts: Mia, new girl, girl · What happens: remember, pretend, read, come, walk, play · To what, where: Ohio, fire notice, four square · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «What a real friend is» 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 (Mia, new girl, girl), 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 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 remembers | nsubj |
| 2 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 day | nmod:poss |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remembers | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Ohio | case |
| 7 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 remembers | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pretending | punct |
| 9 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 remembers | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 read | mark |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pretending | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 notice | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 notice | compound |
| 14 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 read | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 wall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wall | det |
| 17 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 read | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 comes | punct |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 comes | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 comes | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 comes | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 girl | det |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 girl | amod |
| 24 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 comes | nsubj |
| 25 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 walks | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 walks | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 walks | nsubj |
| 28 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembers | parataxis |
| 29 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 30 over | advmod |
| 30 | over | over | ADV | _ | 28 walks | advmod |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 over | punct |
| 32 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 walks | punct |
| 33 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 28 walks | discourse |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 play | punct |
| 35 | wanna | wanna | X | Foreign=Yes | 36 play | dep |
| 36 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembers | conj |
| 37 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 square | nummod |
| 38 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 play | obj |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | Mia | Ohio | day | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | pretend | gerund | Mia not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | read | to-infinitive | Mia not said here | the fire notice | by the wall | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Topic | |||
| 4 | come | present | a new girl | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | walk | present | girl | over property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | play in a quote | present | Mia not said here | four square | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent square=Theme |
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:485-what-a-real-friend-is.lesson:12.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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