Left out: the party, the new school, the third wheel, sentence 16
Having more than one friend helps when your only friend is away; "branch out" means make more friends.
Who acts: Having, only friend, branch · What happens: have, help, be, mean, make · To what, where: one friend, more friends
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 (Having, only friend, branch), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 helps | csubj |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 4 one | advmod |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 2 more | fixed |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 friend | nummod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 6 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 away | mark |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 friend | amod |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 away | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 away | cop |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 helps | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 means | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 branch | punct |
| 15 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | nsubj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 branch | compound:prt |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 branch | punct |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 helps | parataxis |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 means | xcomp |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 friends | amod |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | one friend | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | |||||
| 2 | help | present | Having | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | your only friend | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | branch | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | make not said to happen | present | branch not said here | more friends | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |
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:16.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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