--- title: Their volcano erupts baking soda all over the teacher's desk; it get… — Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someon… · tree and pragmatics description: Their volcano erupts baking soda all over the teacher's desk; it gets the best mark in the class, and Mia has a new friend. Who acts: volcano, Mia. 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 tr --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 9 Their volcano erupts baking soda all over the teacher's desk; it gets the best mark in the class, and Mia has a new friend. **Who acts:** volcano, Mia · **What happens:** erupt, get, have · **To what, where:** baking soda, desk, best mark, class, new friend 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 (volcano, Mia), 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:9 # text = Their volcano erupts baking soda all over the teacher's desk; it gets the best mark in the class, and Mia has a new friend. # 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 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 volcano volcano NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 erupts erupt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 baking bake NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 soda soda NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 all all ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 desk desk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **erupt** | present | mates's volcano | baking soda | | the teacher's desk | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location soda=Theme | | 2 | **get** | present | volcano | the best mark | | the class | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | present | Mia | a new friend | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | 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:9`. **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. **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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