The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 22
Chloe stops whispering answers, and finds a study buddy, Aisha, who helps with fractions and asks for help with spelling.
Who acts: Chloe, study buddy · What happens: stop, whisper, find, help, ask · To what, where: answers, study buddy
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 (Chloe, study buddy), 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 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | whispering | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stops | xcomp |
| 4 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 whispering | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 finds | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 finds | cc |
| 7 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stops | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 buddy | det |
| 9 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buddy | compound |
| 10 | buddy | buddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finds | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Aisha | punct |
| 12 | Aisha | Aisha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 buddy | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 helps | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 helps | nsubj |
| 15 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 buddy | acl:relcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 fractions | case |
| 17 | fractions | fraction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 helps | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asks | cc |
| 19 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 helps | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 help | case |
| 21 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asks | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 spelling | case |
| 23 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 help | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Chloe | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | Chloe not said here | answers | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find | present | Chloe not said here | a study buddy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddy=Topic | ||||
| 4 | help | present | a study buddy | with fractions | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fraction=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | a study buddy not said here | for help with spelling | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:22.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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