Covering for a friend, sentence 35
Helping a friend at your own cost, like lending your kit, is kindness, not lying.
Who acts: Helping, your · What happens: help, lend, be, not lie, cost · To what, where: friend, own cost, kit, kindness
This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering for 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 (Helping, your), 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 | Helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 kindness | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Helping | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 cost | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cost | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cost | amod |
| 7 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Helping | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lending | punct |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 lending | mark |
| 10 | lending | lend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Helping | advcl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 kit | nmod:poss |
| 12 | kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lending | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kindness | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 kindness | cop |
| 15 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lying | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 lying | advmod |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 kindness | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 kindness | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | gerund | a friend | your own cost | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | lend | gerund | your kit | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kit=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Helping | kindness | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not lie | gerund | Helping not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cost | your | nom cost «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:35.
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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