The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 2
Connor's mum finds him moping.
Who acts: mum, Connor · What happens: find, mope · To what, where: Connor
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 (mum, Connor), 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 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Connor | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | nsubj |
| 4 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finds | obj |
| 6 | moping | mope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 finds | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Connor's mum | Connor | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mope | gerund | Connor not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:2.
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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