The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 36
Friendship goes both ways: both people give and both people take.
Who acts: Friendship, people · What happens: go, give, take · To what, where: ways
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 (Friendship, people), 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 | Friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ways | det |
| 4 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 goes | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 give | nsubj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ways | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 take | nsubj |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Friendship | both ways | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | present | both people | both ways not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | present | both people | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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:36.
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): 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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