The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 7
He spends more time with Raj, who never asks for anything and always brings two biscuits.
Who acts: Ollie · What happens: spend, not ask, bring · To what, where: two biscuits
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 (Ollie), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spends | nsubj |
| 2 | spends | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spends | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Raj | case |
| 6 | Raj | Raj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spends | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asks | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 asks | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 asks | advmod |
| 10 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spends | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 anything | case |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 asks | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brings | cc |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 brings | advmod |
| 15 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 asks | conj |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 biscuits | nummod |
| 17 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brings | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | Ollie | time | with Raj | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask | present | for anything | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring | present | two biscuits | always property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent biscuit=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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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