--- title: Picture three friends arguing for an hour about calling themselves "… — Starting a band · tree and pragmatics description: Picture three friends arguing for an hour about calling themselves "Skibidi Wolves" or "The Toast" without playing a note: the name is the least important part, and lots of famous bands changed theirs early on. Who acts: you, three friends, hour, name. 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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 (you, three friends, hour, name), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:004-starting-a-band.lesson:1 # text = Picture three friends arguing for an hour about calling themselves "Skibidi Wolves" or "The Toast" without playing a note: the name is the least important part, and lots of famous bands changed theirs early on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 004-starting-a-band.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 arguing argue VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 about about SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Skibidi Skibidi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Toast toast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 without without SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 least least ADV RBS Degree=Sup 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJS:Degree=Sup 30 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 38 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 39 theirs theirs PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 41 advmod _ _ 41 on on ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | three friends | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | | 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund | three friends *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | gerund | a hour *not said here* | friends *= friend* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme wolf=Result | | 4 | **play** | gerund | three friends *not said here* | a note | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | the name | the important part | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **change** | past | lots of famous bands | notes *= note* | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theirs=Patient | 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:arts:004-starting-a-band.lesson:1`. **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, R8-pos-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: [Starting a band, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/0/) - next →: [Starting a band, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/)