Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 30

Asking a friend directly whether they were laughing at you can bring out the truth, because sometimes a friend is being used against you.

Who acts: ups, Asking · What happens: ask, laugh, bring out, use · To what, where: friend, truth · 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 (ups, Asking), 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	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 bring	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	iobj
4	directly	directly	ADV	_	1 Asking	advmod
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 laughing	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laughing	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laughing	aux
8	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Asking	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 laughing	obl
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bring	aux
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 bring	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 truth	det
15	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bring	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 used	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 used	mark
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 used	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 friend	det
20	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 used	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 used	aux:pass
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 used	aux:pass
23	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 bring	advcl
24	against	against	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 used	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 bring	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			a friend	directly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic
2	laugh	past · progressive	ups = up			at you	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring out	can	Asking	the truth			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent truth=Patient
4	use	present · passive		a friend		against you; sometimes property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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:30.

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, 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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