Picking teams and being picked last, sentence 9
Sometimes people are picked late simply because nobody knows them yet.
Who acts: nobody · What happens: pick, know · To what, where: people
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 (nobody), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 picked | advmod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | aux:pass |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 picked | advmod |
| 6 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 4 picked | advmod |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 knows | mark |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knows | obj |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 knows | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | present · passive | people | late, simply, sometimes property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | present | nobody | people | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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:9.
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. 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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