How best friends start, sentence 28
You can't buy friends: if the friendship stops when the gifts stop, it wasn't friendship.
Who acts: You, friendship, gifts, way · What happens: not buy, stop, not be · To what, where: friends, friendship
This is a sentence of the lesson «How best friends start» 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 (You, friendship, gifts, way), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 buy | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 buy | advmod |
| 4 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 buy | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 stops | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 stops | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 friendship | det |
| 9 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stops | nsubj |
| 10 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 buy | advcl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 stop | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gifts | det |
| 13 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stops | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stop | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 friendship | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 friendship | cop |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 friendship | advmod |
| 19 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buy | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not buy | can | You | friends | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop a condition, not said to happen | present | the friendship | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | stop | present | the gifts | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not is a | past | way | friendship | 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:461-how-best-friends-start.lesson:28.
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): no change. 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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