The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend, sentence 8
Mia's Roblox friend «Bella_10» says she's ten and lives in Florida, then asks to video chat: «just us, don't tell ur mom, she'd be weird about it».
Who acts: Roblox friend, friend · What happens: say, be, ask, not tell · To what, where: Florida, mom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend» 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 (Roblox friend, friend), 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 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mia | case |
| 3 | Roblox | Roblox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | compound |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | nsubj |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bella | punct |
| 6 | Bella | Bella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | appos |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bella | punct |
| 8 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Bella | flat |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bella | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lives | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lives | cop |
| 13 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 lives | nummod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lives | cc |
| 15 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 says | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Florida | case |
| 17 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lives | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asks | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 asks | advmod |
| 20 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 says | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 chat | case |
| 22 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chat | compound |
| 23 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asks | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 asks | punct |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 us | punct |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 us | advmod |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 asks | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 us | punct |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 tell | aux |
| 30 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 tell | advmod |
| 31 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 asks | conj |
| 32 | ur | your | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mom | nmod:poss |
| 33 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tell | iobj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 weird | punct |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 weird | nsubj |
| 36 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 weird | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 weird | cop |
| 38 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 says | ccomp |
| 39 | about | about | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 weird | obl |
| 41 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 38 weird | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mia's Roblox friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | friend | Florida | live property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | Mia's Roblox friend not said here | then | to video chat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Mia's Roblox friend not said here | ur's mom | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mom=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | would | friend | about chat; weird property | 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:480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend.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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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