The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 38
You can say no to lending money or things; a real friend pays back and looks after what they borrow.
Who acts: You, real friend, people · What happens: say, lend, pay back, look, borrow · To what, where: no, money · 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 (You, real friend, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 say | obj |
| 5 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 6 lending | mark |
| 6 | lending | lend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 say | advcl |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lending | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 things | cc |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 money | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pays | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 friend | det |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friend | amod |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pays | nsubj |
| 14 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | parataxis |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 pays | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looks | cc |
| 17 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pays | conj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 what | case |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 looks | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 borrow | nsubj |
| 21 | borrow | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | 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 | can | You | no | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lend | gerund | You not said here | money or things | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay back | present | a real friend | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look | present | a real friend not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | borrow | present | people | vn obtain-13.5.2 «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:38.
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 ×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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