The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 46
If someone's kindness has a price tag, it isn't really kindness.
Who acts: kindness · What happens: have, not be · To what, where: price tag, kindness
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 (kindness), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 has | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 someone | case |
| 4 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 kindness | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tag | det |
| 7 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tag | compound |
| 8 | tag | tag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kindness | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 kindness | cop |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 kindness | advmod |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 kindness | advmod |
| 14 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 kindness | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | someone's kindness | a price tag | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tag=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | kindness | kindness | tree rules |
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:46.
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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