--- title: And when Ellie and Jess row over a gel pen and each wants Maddie on… — Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someon… · tree and pragmatics description: And when Ellie and Jess row over a gel pen and each wants Maddie on her side, Maddie says, «I'm not picking sides, it's a pen.» Lily solves threes another way: games that need three, like piggy in the middle with turns, and on bad days they go and find a fourth. 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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 (Ellie, each, Maddie, side), 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:20 # text = And when Ellie and Jess row over a gel pen and each wants Maddie on her side, Maddie says, «I'm not picking sides, it's a pen.» Lily solves threes another way: games that need three, like piggy in the middle with turns, and on bad days they go and find a fourth. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 3 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Jess Jess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 row row VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 gel gel NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 nsubj _ _ 13 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 ccomp _ _ 27 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:ccomp 33 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 35 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 solves solve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 37 threes three NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 39 det _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 41 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 appos _ _ 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 obj _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 like like ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 piggy piggy NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 51 with with ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nmod _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 55 on on ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 obl _ _ 58 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 59 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 61 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 59 conj _ _ 62 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 fourth fourth NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obj _ _ 64 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **row** | present | Ellie and Jess | | | a gel pen | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over pen=Trajectory | | 2 | **want** | present | each | Maddie | | Jess's side | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot maddie=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Maddie | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **pick** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Maddie | sides | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | side | a pen | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **solve** | present | Lily | threes | | | | another way *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Topic | | 7 | **need** | present | games and piggy in the middle with turns | three | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot three=Theme | | 8 | **go** | present | Maddie | | | | day | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **find** | present | Maddie *not said here* | a fourth | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fourth=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:20`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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