The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 1
When Connor invites him to his birthday, Ollie is «busy, soz».
Who acts: Connor, Ollie · What happens: invite, be · To what, where: friend
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 (Connor, Ollie), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 invites | mark |
| 2 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 invites | nsubj |
| 3 | invites | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 busy | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 invites | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 birthday | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 7 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invites | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 busy | punct |
| 9 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 busy | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 busy | cop |
| 11 | « | « | ADV | _ | 12 busy | advmod |
| 12 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 busy | punct |
| 14 | soz | soz | INTJ | _ | 12 busy | discourse |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 busy | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | present | Connor | friend | to friend's birthday | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Ollie | busy property | tree rules |
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:1.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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