Picking teams and being picked last, sentence 3
Kid captains mostly pick their mates first, so the order shows friendships and moods, not how good you are; Arjun, new from Mumbai, was picked last in Birmingham and then bowled out three batters.
Who acts: Kid captains, order, you · What happens: pick, show, not be, bowl out · To what, where: mates, friendships, Arjun, Birmingham, three batters
This is a sentence of the lesson «Picking teams and being picked last» of the medicine 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 (Kid captains, order, you), 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 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 captains | compound |
| 2 | captains | captain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pick | nsubj |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 4 pick | advmod |
| 4 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mates | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pick | obj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 pick | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shows | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 shows | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 order | det |
| 11 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shows | nsubj |
| 12 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pick | conj |
| 13 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shows | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 moods | cc |
| 15 | moods | mood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 friendships | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 good | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 good | advmod |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 good | advmod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shows | parataxis |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 good | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 good | cop |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 Arjun | punct |
| 23 | Arjun | Arjun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 new | punct |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Arjun | amod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 Mumbai | case |
| 27 | Mumbai | Mumbai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 new | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Mumbai | punct |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 picked | aux:pass |
| 30 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pick | parataxis |
| 31 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 picked | xcomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Birmingham | case |
| 33 | Birmingham | Birmingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 picked | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bowled | cc |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 bowled | advmod |
| 36 | bowled | bowl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 picked | conj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 bowled | compound:prt |
| 38 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 batters | nummod |
| 39 | batters | batter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 bowled | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | present | Kid captains | captains's mates | first, mostly property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Patient | |||
| 2 | show | present | the order | friendships and moods | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friendship=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pick | past · passive | Arjun | Birmingham | last property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | bowl out | participle | three batters | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent batter=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:medicine:066-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last.lesson:3.
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 ×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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