The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 13
Last time it came back on Thursday, not Monday, with a sticky controller.
Who acts: cousin · What happens: come back
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 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 time | amod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Thursday | case |
| 7 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Monday | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 Monday | advmod |
| 10 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Thursday | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 controller | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 controller | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 controller | det |
| 14 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 controller | amod |
| 15 | controller | controller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed voice=character, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | cousin | thursday; time | with a sticky controller | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:13.
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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