The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 8
Kieran's mate Deano «forgets» his dinner money every week.
Who acts: mate · What happens: forget · To what, where: dinner money
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 (mate), 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 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kieran | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgets | nsubj |
| 4 | Deano | Deano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | appos |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 forgets | punct |
| 6 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 forgets | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 money | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 money | compound |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgets | obj |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 week | det |
| 12 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgets | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 forgets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget in a quote | present | Kieran's mate | Ollie's dinner money | week | 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:8.
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): R6-punct-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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