When nobody sits with you: making friends again, sentence 7

Loneliness can make people pull back, and pulling back makes loneliness worse; this circle can be broken by small steps like a club or saying yes to an invitation.

Who acts: Loneliness, people, pulling, small steps · What happens: make, pull back, break, say · To what, where: people, loneliness, circle, invitation · 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, people, pulling, small steps), 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 make	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 pull	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 makes	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 makes	cc
9	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 makes	csubj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 pulling	advmod
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
12	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	obj
13	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 makes	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 broken	punct
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 circle	det
16	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 broken	nsubj:pass
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 broken	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 broken	aux:pass
19	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 make	parataxis
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 steps	case
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 steps	amod
22	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 broken	obl
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 club	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 club	det
25	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 steps	nmod
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 saying	cc
27	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 broken	conj
28	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	31 invitation	discourse
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 invitation	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 invitation	det
31	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saying	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	can	Loneliness	people			tree rules
2	pull back	infinitive	people not said here				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pull back	gerund					vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	present	pulling	loneliness		bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset loneliness=Product
5	break	can · passive	small steps like a club	this circle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient
6	say speech: assert	gerund	small steps like a club not said here		a invitation		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to invitation=Recipient

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:7.

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 ×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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