New partners and step-families, sentence 10

When Mum says "We're just friends", she means they are friends, not boyfriend and girlfriend, and you can believe her.

Who acts: Mum, We, pressure, you · What happens: say, be, mean, believe · To what, where: friends, pressure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «New partners and step-families» of the adult life 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 (Mum, We, pressure, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 says	advmod
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 means	advcl
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 friends	punct
5	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 friends	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 friends	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 friends	advmod
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 friends	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 means	nsubj
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 friends	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 friends	cop
15	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 means	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boyfriend	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 boyfriend	advmod
18	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 friends	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 girlfriend	cc
20	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boyfriend	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 believe	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 believe	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 believe	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 believe	aux
25	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 means	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 believe	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mum		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	We	friends	tree rules
3	mean	present	pressure		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	mum	friends and boyfriend and girlfriend	tree rules
5	believe	can	you	pressure	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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, 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:adult-life:016-new-partners-and-step-families.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/10/