How best friends start, sentence 3
Lily asks if they'll still be friends when they're old.
Who acts: Lily, Maddie · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: friends
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 (Lily, Maddie), 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 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 friends | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 friends | aux |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 friends | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 friends | cop |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 asks | ccomp |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 old | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 old | nsubj |
| 11 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 old | cop |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friends | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Lily | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | future | Maddie | friends | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | Maddie | old property | 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:3.
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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