--- title: When Ade goes off to play with the Year 6 lads, Sam and Jake stop mo… — Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someon… · tree and pragmatics description: When Ade goes off to play with the Year 6 lads, Sam and Jake stop moping and find a bigger game with the girls from Maddie's class. Who acts: Ade, Sam. 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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 (Ade, Sam), 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:19 # text = When Ade goes off to play with the Year 6 lads, Sam and Jake stop moping and find a bigger game with the girls from Maddie's class. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Ade Ade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp 7 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 Year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 flat _ _ 11 lads lad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 moping mope VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go off** | present | Ade | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | Ade *not said here* | | | | | with the Year lads | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lad=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | present | Sam and Jake | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **mope** | gerund | Sam and Jake *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **find** | infinitive | Sam and Jake *not said here* | a bigger game | | | | with the girls from Maddie's class | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.lesson:19`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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. 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