When nobody sits with you: making friends again, sentence 13
New players often need time before a team trusts them; "like a lemon" is UK slang for looking silly or useless.
Who acts: New players, team, lemon · What happens: need, trust, be, look · To what, where: players, UK slang
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 (New players, team, lemon), 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 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 players | amod |
| 2 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 need | advmod |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | obj |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 trusts | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 team | det |
| 8 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trusts | nsubj |
| 9 | trusts | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 trusts | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 trusts | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 trusts | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 lemon | discourse |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lemon | det |
| 15 | lemon | lemon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slang | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 lemon | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 slang | cop |
| 18 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 slang | compound |
| 19 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 looking | mark |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 slang | advcl |
| 22 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 looking | xcomp |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 useless | cc |
| 24 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 silly | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | 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 | need | present | New players | time | often property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | trust | present | a team | players = player | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a lemon | UK slang | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | a lemon not said here | silly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:reflection:023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.lesson:13.
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, 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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