White lies and kind silence, sentence 21

When grown-ups call someone a «friend» in a special way, or say two people are «more than friends», they usually mean a boyfriend or girlfriend, a couple; that is their private business.

Who acts: grown ups, two people, people, that · What happens: call, say, be, mean · To what, where: someone, special way, friends, boyfriend, private business · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» 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 (grown ups, two people, people, that), 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	2 grown	advmod
2	grown	grow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ups	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 call	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 friend	punct
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	xcomp
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 friend	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 way	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 way	det
13	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 way	amod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 say	cc
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 call	conj
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 people	nummod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 friends	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 friends	cop
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 more	punct
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	24 friends	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 more	fixed
24	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 say	ccomp
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 friends	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mean	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 mean	nsubj
28	usually	usually	ADV	_	29 mean	advmod
29	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 call	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 boyfriend	det
31	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mean	obj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 girlfriend	cc
33	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 boyfriend	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 couple	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 couple	det
36	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 boyfriend	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 business	punct
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 business	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 business	cop
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 business	nmod:poss
41	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 business	amod
42	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 friends	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 call	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	infinitive	grown ups		someone	a special way		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	grown ups not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	two people	friends and people's private business				tree rules
4	mean	present	people	a boyfriend or girlfriend and a couple			usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boyfriend=Topic
5	is a	present	that	people's private business				tree rules

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:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:21.

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 ×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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