When nobody sits with you: making friends again, sentence 0

Loneliness can become a circle: three months into a new school, Zainab still ate lunch alone most days, and at night she thought: "Back home I had loads of mates.

Who acts: Loneliness, Zainab · What happens: become, eat, think, have · To what, where: circle, lunch, loads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» 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 (Loneliness, Zainab), 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	Loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 circle	det
5	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 months	punct
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 months	nummod
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 circle	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 school	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 school	det
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 school	amod
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 months	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ate	punct
14	Zainab	Zainab	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ate	nsubj
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 ate	advmod
16	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 circle	acl:relcl
17	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ate	obj
18	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 ate	advmod
19	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 days	amod
20	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ate	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thought	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 night	case
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thought	obl
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thought	nsubj
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 circle	parataxis
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
29	Back	back	ADV	_	30 home	advmod
30	home	home	ADV	_	32 had	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thought	ccomp
33	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 had	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 mates	case
35	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 loads	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 circle	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	can	Loneliness	a circle and three months into a new school			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	eat	past	Zainab	lunch	still; day	alone property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient
3	think speech: other	past	Zainab		night		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have in a quote	past	Zainab	loads of mates		home property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient

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:023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.lesson:0.

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 ×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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