The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 21

In tests Bella whispers «what did you get for number 6?» and Chloe tells her, but when Chloe asks for help with fractions, Bella is «too busy».

Who acts: Bella, you, Chloe · What happens: whisper, get, tell, ask, be · To what, where: tests, Bella · 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 (Bella, you, Chloe), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 tests	case
2	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 whispers	obl
3	Bella	Bella	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 whispers	nsubj
4	whispers	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 busy	parataxis
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 get	obj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 whispers	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 number	case
11	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
12	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 number	flat
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 »	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 whispers	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tells	cc
16	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 tells	nsubj
17	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 whispers	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tells	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asks	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 asks	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 asks	advmod
22	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 asks	nsubj
23	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tells	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 help	case
25	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asks	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 fractions	case
27	fractions	fraction	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 help	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tests	punct
29	Bella	Bella	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 busy	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 busy	cop
31	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 busy	punct
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 busy	advmod
33	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 busy	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 busy	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: ask	present	Bella		tests		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	past · do-support	you			for number	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme for number=Source
3	tell speech: assert	present	Chloe	Bella			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	ask speech: ask	present	Chloe			for help with fractions	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	Bella			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:21.

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, R7-rel-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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