--- title: Bridesmaids are friends or relatives who help the bride and walk wit… — Dates, engagements and weddings · tree and pragmatics description: Bridesmaids are friends or relatives who help the bride and walk with her, and children can be flower girls or page boys. Who acts: Bridesmaids, friends, children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bridesmaids, friends, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:13 # text = Bridesmaids are friends or relatives who help the bride and walk with her, and children can be flower girls or page boys. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Bridesmaids bridesmaid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 19 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:appos 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Bridesmaids | friends or relatives and flower girls or page boys | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | friends or relatives and flower girls or page boys | | the bride | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Beneficiary | | 3 | **walk** | infinitive | friends or relatives and flower girls or page boys *not said here* | | | | | with bride | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | can | children | flower girls or page boys | | | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/12/) - next →: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/)