--- title: Twelve kids used to come over every Saturday; now only six turn up,… — Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids an… · tree and pragmatics description: Twelve kids used to come over every Saturday; now only six turn up, and they play basketball in the drive and laugh just as much. Who acts: Twelve kids, friends. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours/2/) [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/) / [Friends who only come for the pool: ri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours/) / 2 # Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours, sentence 2 Twelve kids used to come over every Saturday; now only six turn up, and they play basketball in the drive and laugh just as much. **Who acts:** Twelve kids, friends · **What happens:** use, come over, turn up, play, laugh · **To what, where:** Twelve kids, basketball, drive This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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 (Twelve kids, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.lesson:2 # text = Twelve kids used to come over every Saturday; now only six turn up, and they play basketball in the drive and laugh just as much. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.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 ×2 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 3 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 over over ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 now now ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nummod 13 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 basketball basketball NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 drive drive NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 just just ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 as as ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advcl 28 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | participle | | Twelve kids *not said here* | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **come over** | to-infinitive | | | | | saturday | over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **turn up** | present | Twelve kids | | | | now | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **play** | present | friends *= friend* | basketball | | the drive | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basketball=Theme | | 5 | **laugh** | present | friends *= friend* *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.lesson:2`. **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 ×2. **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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