The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 23
Lily's friend Hannah only invites her round the night before a test, to revise Hannah's weak bits — never Saturday, never fun.
Who acts: friend · What happens: invite, revise · To what, where: Chloe, weak bits
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 (friend), 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 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lily | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 invites | nsubj |
| 4 | Hannah | Hannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | appos |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 invites | advmod |
| 6 | invites | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 invites | obj |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 invites | obl |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 test | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 test | det |
| 13 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 night | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 revise | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 revise | mark |
| 16 | revise | revise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 invites | advcl |
| 17 | Hannah | Hannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 bits | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Hannah | case |
| 19 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bits | amod |
| 20 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 revise | obj |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 revise | punct |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 Saturday | advmod |
| 23 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 revise | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fun | punct |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 fun | advmod |
| 26 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 invites | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 invites | 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 | invite | present | Lily's friend | Chloe | night | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Recipient | |||
| 2 | revise | to-infinitive | Lily's friend not said here | Hannah's weak bits | saturday | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |
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:23.
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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