Left out: the party, the new school, the third wheel, sentence 10
A "third wheel" is the extra person when two friends pair up; friendships change, and saying you feel left out often fixes it because the others hadn't noticed.
Who acts: third wheel, two friends, friendships, you, saying, others · What happens: be, pair up, change, say, feel, leave out · To what, where: extra person, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Left out: the party, the new school, the third wheel» of the reflection 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 (third wheel, two friends, friendships, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wheel | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wheel | punct |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 wheel | amod |
| 4 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 person | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wheel | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 person | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 person | det |
| 8 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 person | amod |
| 9 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 pair | advmod |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 friends | nummod |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pair | nsubj |
| 13 | pair | pair | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 person | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 pair | compound:prt |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 change | punct |
| 16 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 change | nsubj |
| 17 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 person | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fixes | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saying | cc |
| 20 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 fixes | csubj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 feel | nsubj |
| 22 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 saying | ccomp |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 feel | xcomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 left | compound:prt |
| 25 | often | often | ADV | _ | 26 fixes | advmod |
| 26 | fixes | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 person | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fixes | obj |
| 28 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 noticed | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 others | det |
| 30 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 noticed | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 noticed | aux |
| 32 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 noticed | advmod |
| 33 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 fixes | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 person | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a third wheel | the extra person | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pair up | present | two friends | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | change | present | friendships | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | feel | present | you | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | leave out | participle | you not said here | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | fix | present | saying | friend | often property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 8 | not notice | past · perfect | the others | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:reflection:021-left-out-the-party-the-new-school-the-third-wheel.lesson:10.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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