The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 40
Never lie to a parent to cover for a friend; a real friend shouldn't ask you to.
Who acts: you, real friend · What happens: not lie, cover, not ask · To what, where: you
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), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 lie | advmod |
| 2 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 parent | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parent | det |
| 5 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lie | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cover | mark |
| 7 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lie | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 friend | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 friend | det |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cover | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ask | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 friend | det |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 friend | amod |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ask | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 ask | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 ask | advmod |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lie | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 ask | iobj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 ask | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lie | imperative | you not said here | to a parent | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cover | to-infinitive | you not said here | for a friend | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not ask speech: ask | should | a real friend | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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:40.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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