--- title: By day two he's teamed up with two German kids using hand signals: o… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics description: By day two he's teamed up with two German kids using hand signals: only children often learn to make friends fast. Who acts: Kwabena, two German kids, children. A sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/27/) [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/) / [The only child: a quiet house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/) / 27 # The only child: a quiet house, sentence 27 By day two he's teamed up with two German kids using hand signals: only children often learn to make friends fast. **Who acts:** Kwabena, two German kids, children · **What happens:** team up, use, learn, make · **To what, where:** hand signals, friends This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» 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 (Kwabena, two German kids, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:27 # text = By day two he's teamed up with two German kids using hand signals: only children often learn to make friends fast. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.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 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 flat _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 's have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 teamed team VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 often often ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 learn learn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **team up** | present · perfect | Kwabena | | | | day | with two German kids | vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with kid=Co-Agent | | 2 | **use** | gerund | two German kids *not said here* | hand signals | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Patient | | 3 | **learn** | infinitive | children | | | | | often *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | friends | | | | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product | 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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:27`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The only child: a quiet house, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/26/) - next →: [The only child: a quiet house, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/)