--- title: At his cousin's birthday they meet for real and nobody knows what to… — Friends through games and clubs · tree and pragmatics description: At his cousin's birthday they meet for real and nobody knows what to say; they stand round the trampoline staring at their trainers until someone mentions the new map, and everyone talks at once. Who acts: mates, nobody, someone, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Friends through games and clubs» o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Friends through games and clubs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/) / 23 # Friends through games and clubs, sentence 23 At his cousin's birthday they meet for real and nobody knows what to say; they stand round the trampoline staring at their trainers until someone mentions the new map, and everyone talks at once. **Who acts:** mates, nobody, someone, everyone · **What happens:** meet, know, say, stand, stare, mention · **To what, where:** birthday, new map · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends through games and clubs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mates, nobody, someone, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.lesson:23 # text = At his cousin's birthday they meet for real and nobody knows what to say; they stand round the trampoline staring at their trainers until someone mentions the new map, and everyone talks at once. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.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): no change 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 12 nsubj _ _ 12 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 19 round round ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 trampoline trampoline NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 trainers trainer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 until until SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 nsubj _ _ 28 mentions mention VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 35 nsubj _ _ 35 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 35 obl _ _ 38 . . 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 | **meet** | present | mates *= mate* | | | Connor's cousin's birthday | | for real | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **know** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **stand** | present | mates *= mate* | | | | | round the trampoline | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stare** | gerund | mates *= mate* *not said here* | | | | | at mates's trainers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at trainer=Theme | | 6 | **mention** *speech: other* | present | someone | the new map | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent map=Topic | | 7 | **talk** | present | everyone | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «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:467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.lesson:23`. **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): no change. **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: [Friends through games and clubs, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/22/) - next →: [Friends through games and clubs, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/)