The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 43
Turning a favour into time together shows whether a person wanted you or only your things.
Who acts: Turning, person · What happens: turn, show, want · To what, where: favour, you · 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 (Turning, person), 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 shows | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 favour | det |
| 3 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 shows | advmod |
| 7 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 wanted | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shows | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wanted | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 things | cc |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 things | advmod |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 things | nmod:poss |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 you | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | a favour | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent favour=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | present | Turning | together property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | want | past | a person | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
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:43.
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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