--- title: "Going out with someone" means two people are a couple who spend tim… — Dates, engagements and weddings · tree and pragmatics description: "Going out with someone" means two people are a couple who spend time together because they like each other a lot. Who acts: Going, two people, couple, couples. 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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 (Going, two people, couple, couples), 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:4 # text = "Going out with someone" means two people are a couple who spend time together because they like each other a lot. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obl _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 together together ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | with someone | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with someone=Co-Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | Going | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | two people | a couple | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **spend** | present | a couple | | | | time | together *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **like** | present | couples *= couple* | each other | | | | a lot *obl:unmarked* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot other=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](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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/3/) - next →: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/)