When nobody sits with you: making friends again, sentence 8
Feeling lonely at a new school does not mean you are unlikeable; friendships need time and places to grow.
Who acts: Feeling, you, friendships · What happens: feel, not mean, be, need, grow · To what, where: new school · 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 (Feeling, you, 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 | Feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 mean | csubj |
| 2 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Feeling | xcomp |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 school | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 school | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 school | amod |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Feeling | obl |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mean | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 mean | advmod |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 unlikeable | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 unlikeable | cop |
| 12 | unlikeable | unlikeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mean | ccomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 need | punct |
| 14 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 need | nsubj |
| 15 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 unlikeable | parataxis |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 need | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 places | cc |
| 18 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 time | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 grow | mark |
| 20 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 time | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | a new school | lonely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not mean | present · do-support | Feeling | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | you | unlikeable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | need | present | friendships | time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | grow | to-infinitive | 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:8.
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): no change. 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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