The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 24
Lily says, «I'll help, but let's do something fun after.» They bake terrible cookies, and it's the best afternoon they've had.
Who acts: Lily, 's, tests, bit · What happens: say, help, let, do, bake, be · To what, where: 's, something, terrible cookies, best afternoon · 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 (Lily, 's, tests, bit), 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 | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 help | nsubj |
| 6 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | aux |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | conj |
| 11 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 something | amod |
| 15 | after | after | ADV | _ | 12 do | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 18 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bake | nsubj |
| 19 | bake | bake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | parataxis |
| 20 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cookies | amod |
| 21 | cookies | cookie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bake | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 afternoon | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 afternoon | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 afternoon | nsubj |
| 25 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 afternoon | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 afternoon | det |
| 27 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 afternoon | amod |
| 28 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bake | conj |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 30 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 had | aux |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 afternoon | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Lily | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | help in a quote | future | Lily | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | Lily not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | something | after property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | bake | present | tests = test | terrible cookies | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cookie=Product | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | bit | the best afternoon | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have | present · perfect | tests = test | the best afternoon not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent afternoon=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:24.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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