The fake friend online, sentence 24

An account told Ruby, «I'm your cousin's friend from school, add me!» Ruby asked her cousin, who had never heard of them.

Who acts: account, Ruby, cousin · What happens: tell, be, add, ask, not hear · To what, where: Ruby, friend, school, account, cousin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The fake friend online» 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 (account, Ruby, cousin), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 account	det
2	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 asked	parataxis
4	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 «	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 friend	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 friend	cop
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cousin	nmod:poss
10	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 friend	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 cousin	case
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	ccomp
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 school	case
14	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 friend	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 friend	punct
16	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 friend	parataxis
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 add	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 add	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
20	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 asked	nsubj
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 cousin	nmod:poss
23	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asked	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 heard	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 heard	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 heard	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 heard	advmod
28	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 cousin	acl:relcl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 heard	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a account		Ruby			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ruby=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	a account = account	your cousin's friend		school		tree rules
3	add speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		a account = account				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	past	Ruby	Ruby's cousin				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cousin=Recipient
5	not hear	past · perfect	Ruby's cousin				of friends = friend	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of they=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:everyday:447-the-fake-friend-online.lesson:24.

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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