Standing by a friend, sentence 25
A good friend can say no to a bad idea, like revenge, and still be a friend.
Who acts: good friend · What happens: say, be · To what, where: bad idea, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (good friend), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friend | amod |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | discourse |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 idea | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 idea | det |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 idea | amod |
| 10 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 revenge | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 revenge | case |
| 13 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 idea | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 friend | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 friend | cc |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 friend | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 friend | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 friend | det |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | can | a good friend | a bad idea like revenge | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to idea=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | a good friend not said here | a friend | still | 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:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:25.
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): 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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