The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 39
Lend only what you would be all right about losing, and ask for it back looked after.
Who acts: you · What happens: lend, be, lose, ask, look after
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), 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 | Lend | lend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 what | advmod |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Lend | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 right | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 right | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 right | cop |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 right | advmod |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 losing | mark |
| 10 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 right | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ask | cc |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lend | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | obl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ask | advcl |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 looked | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lend | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | imperative | you not said here | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | would | you | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | you not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | for money | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | look after | past | you not said here | vn caring-75.2-1 «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:39.
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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