The best friend who moves away, sentence 32
Letters and parcels are slow, but they can keep a friendship going for years.
Who acts: Letters, friendship · What happens: be, keep, go · To what, where: friendship
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 (Letters, friendship), 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 | Letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slow | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 parcels | cc |
| 3 | parcels | parcel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Letters | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 slow | cop |
| 5 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 keep | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | aux |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 slow | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 friendship | det |
| 12 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 keep | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 going | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slow | 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 | is | present | Letters and parcels | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | can | letters = letter | a friendship | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | a friendship not said here | year | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:32.
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 ×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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