The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 37
Someone who only gets in touch when they want something is a one-way friend.
Who acts: people, Someone · What happens: get, want, be · To what, where: touch, something, way friend
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 (people, Someone), 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 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 friend | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 gets | advmod |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Someone | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 touch | case |
| 6 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 want | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 want | nsubj |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gets | advcl |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 want | obj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 friend | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 friend | det |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 way | nummod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 friend | compound |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | touch | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | want | present | people | something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Someone | a way friend | 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:37.
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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