--- title: Meanwhile Sam and Freddie had run, together, to fetch the teacher on… — Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones wh… · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile Sam and Freddie had run, together, to fetch the teacher on duty — going in a pair meant neither of them chickened out on the way. Who acts: Sam, going, neither. 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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 (Sam, going, neither), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:393-bystanders.lesson:7 # text = Meanwhile Sam and Freddie had run, together, to fetch the teacher on duty — going in a pair meant neither of them chickened out on the way. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 393-bystanders.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Freddie Freddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 — - PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advcl 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 22 neither neither DET DT PronType=Neg 25 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Neg 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 25 chickened chicken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past · perfect | Sam and Freddie | | | | | meanwhile, together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | Sam and Freddie *not said here* | the teacher | | duty | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme on duty=Source | | 3 | **go** | gerund | | | | a pair | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pair=Location | | 4 | **mean** | past | going | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **chicken out** | past | neither | | | the way | | | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:everyday:393-bystanders.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and t…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/393-bystanders/6/) - next →: [Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and t…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/393-bystanders/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/393-bystanders/)