Living in a children's home, sentence 20

They argue about the light for a week, then become best friends, and they still are.

Who acts: kids · What happens: argue, become, be · To what, where: best friends

This is a sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» 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 (kids), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 argue	nsubj
2	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 light	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 light	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 argue	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 week	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 argue	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 become	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 become	advmod
11	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 argue	conj
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 friends	amod
13	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 become	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 are	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 are	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 are	nsubj
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 are	advmod
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 argue	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 argue	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present	kids = kid		week	about the light	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about light=Topic
2	become	present	kids = kid not said here	best friends	then		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	does	present	kids = kid		still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:20.

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 ×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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