The best friend who moves away, sentence 23
Sam's friend Ade goes to Nigeria for a year and they write real letters.
Who acts: friend, friends · What happens: go, write · To what, where: Nigeria, real letters
This is a sentence of the lesson «The best friend who moves away» 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 (friend, friends), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | Ade | Ade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | appos |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Nigeria | case |
| 7 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 write | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 write | nsubj |
| 13 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 goes | conj |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 letters | amod |
| 15 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 write | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | 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 | go | present | Sam's friend | Nigeria | year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nigeria=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | write | present | friends = friend | real letters | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
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:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away.lesson:23.
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 ×3. 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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