--- title: Connor met Raj at football: both were rubbish, both got stuck in def… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics description: Connor met Raj at football: both were rubbish, both got stuck in defence, and they spent the whole match chatting about Minecraft. Who acts: Connor, both, football. 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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 (Connor, both, football), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start.lesson:9 # text = Connor met Raj at football: both were rubbish, both got stuck in defence, and they spent the whole match chatting about Minecraft. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 461-how-best-friends-start.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Connor Connor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Raj Raj PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 9 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:det 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 12 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 defence defence NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 chatting chat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Minecraft Minecraft PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | Connor | Raj | | football and rubbish | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raj=Co-Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | both | rubbish | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | past | both | | | | | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **spend** | past | football | the whole match | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Asset | | 5 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | football *not said here* | | | | | about Minecraft | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about minecraft=Topic | 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:461-how-best-friends-start.lesson:9`. **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, R7-rel-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: [How best friends start, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/7/) - next →: [How best friends start, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/)