--- title: Saying calmly how you feel, such as «I'm always at the back», works… — Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someon… · tree and pragmatics description: Saying calmly how you feel, such as «I'm always at the back», works better than sulking. Who acts: you, I, Saying. 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 cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else/22/) [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/) / [Three's a crowd, and the friend who pi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else/) / 22 # Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 22 Saying calmly how you feel, such as «I'm always at the back», works better than sulking. **Who acts:** you, I, Saying · **What happens:** say, feel, be, work, sulk · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, I, Saying), 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:22 # text = Saying calmly how you feel, such as «I'm always at the back», works better than sulking. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj 2 calmly calmly ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 11 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 12 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 15 advmod _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 20 than than SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 sulking sulk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | calmly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **feel** | present | you | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | as the back; always *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **work** | present | Saying | | | | | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sulk** | gerund | Saying *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:22`. **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, 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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