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title: A "third wheel" is the extra person when two friends pair up; friend… — Left out: the party, the new school, the third w… · tree and pragmatics
description: A "third wheel" is the extra person when two friends pair up; friendships change, and saying you feel left out often fixes it because the others hadn't noticed. Who acts: third wheel, two friends, friendships, you. A sentence of the lesson «Left out: the party, the new school, the third wheel» of th
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# Left out: the party, the new school, the third wheel, sentence 10

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A "third wheel" is the extra person when two friends pair up; friendships change, and saying you feel left out often fixes it because the others hadn't noticed.

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**Who acts:** third wheel, two friends, friendships, you, saying, others · **What happens:** be, pair up, change, say, feel, leave out · **To what, where:** extra person, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Left out: the party, the new school, the third wheel» of the reflection 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 (third wheel, two friends, friendships, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:021-left-out-the-party-the-new-school-the-third-wheel.lesson:10
# text = A "third wheel" is the extra person when two friends pair up; friendships change, and saying you feel left out often fixes it because the others hadn't noticed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 021-left-out-the-party-the-new-school-the-third-wheel.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	pair	pair	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	friendships	friendship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
26	fixes	fix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a third wheel | the extra person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pair up** | present | two friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **change** | present | friendships |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **feel** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **leave out** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **fix** | present | saying | friend |  |  |  | often *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 8 | **not** **notice** | past · perfect | the others |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:reflection:021-left-out-the-party-the-new-school-the-third-wheel.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/).

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