Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 3

A friend who is kind only in private, and mean when there's an audience, is called a frenemy — half friend, half enemy.

Who acts: friend, audience · What happens: be, mean, call · To what, where: private, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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, audience), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 kind	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 friend	acl:relcl
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 private	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 private	case
8	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kind	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mean	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mean	cc
11	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kind	conj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 's	advmod
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 's	expl
14	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mean	ccomp
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 audience	det
16	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 's	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 called	aux:pass
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 frenemy	det
21	frenemy	frenemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 friend	punct
23	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 friend	compound
24	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 frenemy	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 enemy	punct
26	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	27 enemy	amod
27	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 frenemy	appos
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a friend		private	kind property	tree rules
2	mean	infinitive	a friend not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	present	a audience		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	call	present · passive		a friend			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.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): R7-rel-agree ×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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