--- title: On the path to school there's only room for two side by side, so som… — Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someon… · tree and pragmatics description: On the path to school there's only room for two side by side, so someone walks behind, and lately it's always Lily, staring at two heads whispering and giggling. Who acts: room, someone, two heads. 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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 (room, someone, two heads), 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:1 # text = On the path to school there's only room for two side by side, so someone walks behind, and lately it's always Lily, staring at two heads whispering and giggling. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ _ 18 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 behind behind ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 lately lately ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 always always ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 staring stare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:acl 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 whispering whispering VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 giggling giggling VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | room for two side by side | | | the path to school; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Location | | 2 | **walk behind** | present | someone | | | | | behind *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | room | Lily | | | | always, lately *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **stare** | gerund | room *not said here* | | | | | at two heads | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at head=Theme | | 5 | **whispering** | gerund | two heads *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **giggling** | gerund | two heads *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.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): 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. 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