The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 12
Jake's cousin Callum rings only to borrow Jake's PlayStation «for my mate's sleepover, cuz».
Who acts: cousin · What happens: ring, borrow · To what, where: PlayStation
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 (cousin), 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 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jake | case |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rings | nsubj |
| 4 | Callum | Callum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cousin | appos |
| 5 | rings | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 borrow | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 borrow | mark |
| 8 | borrow | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rings | xcomp |
| 9 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 PlayStation | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Jake | case |
| 11 | PlayStation | PlayStation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 borrow | obj |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 sleepover | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 sleepover | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mate | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sleepover | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 mate | case |
| 17 | sleepover | sleepover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 borrow | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cuz | punct |
| 19 | cuz | cuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 borrow | vocative |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 cuz | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rings | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | present | Jake's cousin | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | borrow | to-infinitive | Jake's cousin not said here | Jake's PlayStation | for my mate's sleepover; cuz vocative | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playstation=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:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something.lesson:12.
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): R6-punct-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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