Picking teams and being picked last, sentence 8
Kid captains usually pick friends first, so the picking order says little about skill.
Who acts: Kid captains, picking order · What happens: pick, say · To what, where: friends, little · Speech: someone speaks here
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, picking order), 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 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 pick | advmod |
| 4 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pick | obj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 pick | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 says | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 order | det |
| 10 | picking | picking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 order | compound |
| 11 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pick | conj |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 says | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 skill | case |
| 15 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 little | obl |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | friends | first, usually property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the picking order | little | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent little=Topic |
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:8.
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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