How best friends start, sentence 33
Some friendships last a lifetime, kept alive by lots of small calls and visits over years.
Who acts: friendships · What happens: last, keep · To what, where: lifetime
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 (friendships), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 friendships | det |
| 2 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 last | nsubj |
| 3 | last | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lifetime | det |
| 5 | lifetime | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 last | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 last | advcl |
| 8 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 lots | case |
| 10 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kept | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 calls | case |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 calls | amod |
| 13 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lots | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 visits | cc |
| 15 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 calls | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kept | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 last | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | present | some friendships | a lifetime | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lifetime=Value | ||||
| 2 | keep | participle | some friendships not said here | year | by lots of small calls and visits; alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by lot=Location |
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:33.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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