Standing by a friend, sentence 2

He helps Freddie out, picks a banana skin off his jumper, walks him to the office and stays with him till his mum comes.

Who acts: Sam, mum · What happens: help out, pick, walk, stay, come · To what, where: Freddie, banana skin, Sam, office

This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» 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 (Sam, mum), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 helps	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 helps	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 picks	punct
6	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 helps	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 skin	det
8	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skin	compound
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picks	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 jumper	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 jumper	nmod:poss
12	jumper	jumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picks	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 walks	punct
14	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 helps	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 walks	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 office	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 office	det
18	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walks	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 walks	cc
20	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 helps	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stays	obl
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 comes	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mum	nmod:poss
25	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 comes	nsubj
26	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 stays	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	help out	present	Sam		Freddie			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freddie=Beneficiary
2	pick	present	Sam not said here	a banana skin			off Sam's jumper	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
3	walk	present	Sam not said here	Sam		the office		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to office=Trajectory
4	stay	present	Sam not said here				with Sam	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
5	come	present	Sam's mum					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:370-standing-by-a-friend.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): R5-strong ×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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