When nobody sits with you: making friends again, sentence 4
Then a teacher noticed and found her a lunchtime art club; when someone asked her to sit with them, she said yes; by month four she had two friends; she was never unlikeable, her friendships just hadn't had time or a place to grow.
Who acts: teacher, someone, friendships · What happens: notice, find, ask, sit, say, have · To what, where: lunchtime art club, teacher, two friends · 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 (teacher, someone, friendships), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 noticed | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noticed | nsubj |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 club | det |
| 9 | lunchtime | lunchtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 club | compound |
| 10 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 club | compound |
| 11 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 asked | advmod |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sit | mark |
| 18 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sit | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 23 said | ccomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 month | case |
| 27 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 month | flat |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | ccomp |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 friends | nummod |
| 32 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 had | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 unlikeable | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 unlikeable | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 unlikeable | cop |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 unlikeable | advmod |
| 37 | unlikeable | unlikeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 said | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 friendships | punct |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 friendships | nmod:poss |
| 40 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 had | nsubj |
| 41 | just | just | ADV | _ | 44 had | advmod |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 had | aux |
| 43 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 had | advmod |
| 44 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 unlikeable | parataxis |
| 45 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 had | obj |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 place | cc |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 place | det |
| 48 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 time | conj |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 grow | mark |
| 50 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 place | acl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | a teacher | then | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | find | past | a teacher not said here | a lunchtime art club | teacher | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme club=Attribute | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | someone | teacher | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sit not said to happen | to-infinitive | someone not said here | with circle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | have | past | teacher | two friends | month | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | |||
| 7 | not is | past | teacher | unlikeable property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | not have | past · perfect | teacher's friendships | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | grow | to-infinitive | teacher's friendships not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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