The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 19
Jess calls her «boring» and «a snake», and stops calling.
Who acts: Jess · What happens: call, stop · To what, where: Maddie · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jess), 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 | Jess | Jess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 calls | nsubj |
| 2 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 calls | obj |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 boring | punct |
| 5 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 calls | xcomp |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 boring | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 snake | cc |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 snake | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 snake | det |
| 10 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boring | conj |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 snake | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stops | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stops | cc |
| 14 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 calls | conj |
| 15 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stops | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Jess | Maddie | boring property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | stop | present | Jess not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | call | gerund | Jess not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:19.
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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