The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 44
A fair-weather friend is around for the good times and disappears when things get hard.
Who acts: weather friend, things · What happens: be, disappear, get
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 (weather friend, things), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weather | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 fair | punct |
| 4 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 friend | compound |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disappears | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 around | cop |
| 7 | around | around | ADV | _ | 13 disappears | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 times | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 times | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 times | amod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 around | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 disappears | cc |
| 13 | disappears | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 get | advmod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | nsubj |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 disappears | advcl |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 get | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 disappears | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a weather friend not said here | time | around property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | disappear | present | a weather friend | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | present | things | hard property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:44.
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): no change. 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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