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The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 0

Connor's friend Ollie only messages when he needs something: help with maths homework, a lend of a charger, Connor's spare ticket to the match.

Who acts: friend, Connor · What happens: message, need, help, lend, ticket · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend who only calls when they need something» 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, Connor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nmod:posscasensubjapposadvmodadvmodnsubjadvclobjpunctaclcasecompoundoblpunctdetapposcasedetnmodpunctnmod:posscaseamodconjcasedetnmodpunctrootConnorPROPN'sPARTfriendNOUNOlliePROPNonlyADVmessagesVERBwhenADVhePRONneedsVERBsomethingPRON:PUNCThelpVERBwithADPmathsNOUNhomeworkNOUN,PUNCTaDETlendVERBofADPaDETchargerNOUN,PUNCTConnorPROPN'sPARTspareADJticketNOUNtoADPtheDETmatchNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ConnorConnorPROPNNumber=Sing3 friendnmod:poss
2's'sPART_1 Connorcase
3friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing6 messagesnsubj
4OllieOlliePROPNNumber=Sing3 friendappos
5onlyonlyADV_6 messagesadvmod
6messagesmessageVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
7whenwhenADVPronType=Int9 needsadvmod
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 needsnsubj
9needsneedVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 messagesadvcl
10somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind9 needsobj
11::PUNCT_12 helppunct
12helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf10 somethingacl
13withwithADP_15 homeworkcase
14mathsmathNOUNNumber=Plur15 homeworkcompound
15homeworkhomeworkNOUNNumber=Sing12 helpobl
16,,PUNCT_9 needspunct
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 lenddet
18lendlendVERBVerbForm=Inf10 somethingappos
19ofofADP_21 chargercase
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 chargerdet
21chargerchargerNOUNNumber=Sing18 lendnmod
22,,PUNCT_26 ticketpunct
23ConnorConnorPROPNNumber=Sing26 ticketnmod:poss
24's'sPART_23 Connorcase
25sparespareADJDegree=Pos26 ticketamod
26ticketticketNOUNNumber=Sing18 lendconj
27totoADP_29 matchcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 matchdet
29matchmatchNOUNNumber=Sing26 ticketnmod
30..PUNCT_6 messagespunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1messagepresentConnor's friendtree rules
2needpresentfriendsomethingvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
3helpinfinitivewith maths homeworkvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with homework=Theme
4lendinfinitiveof a chargervn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5ticketConnorto the matchnom ticket «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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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