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title: Lily, Maddie and Chloe are a three. — Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someon… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily, Maddie and Chloe are a three. Who acts: Lily. A sentence of the lesson «Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 0

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Lily, Maddie and Chloe are a three.

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**Who acts:** Lily · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** three

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else» 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 (Lily), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.lesson:0
# text = Lily, Maddie and Chloe are a three.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.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 ×1
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Lily and Maddie and Chloe | a three |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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 ×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/).

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