Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours, sentence 2

Twelve kids used to come over every Saturday; now only six turn up, and they play basketball in the drive and laugh just as much.

Who acts: Twelve kids, friends · What happens: use, come over, turn up, play, laugh · To what, where: Twelve kids, basketball, drive

This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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 (Twelve kids, friends), 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	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kids	nummod
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 turn	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 kids	acl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	xcomp
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 Saturday	det
8	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl:unmarked
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 turn	punct
10	now	now	ADV	_	13 turn	advmod
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 six	advmod
12	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 turn	nsubj
13	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 turn	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 play	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 play	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 play	nsubj
18	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 turn	conj
19	basketball	basketball	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 play	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 drive	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 drive	det
22	drive	drive	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 play	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 laugh	cc
24	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 play	conj
25	just	just	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 laugh	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 turn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		Twelve kids not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	come over	to-infinitive				saturday	over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn up	present	Twelve kids			now		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play	present	friends = friend	basketball	the drive			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basketball=Theme
5	laugh	present	friends = friend not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.lesson:2.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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