Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work, sentence 28
Grown-ups need friends too, and many keep best friends for decades.
Who acts: Grown ups, many · What happens: need, keep · To what, where: friends, best friends
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» 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 (Grown ups, many), 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 | Grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ups | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 need | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 keep | cc |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 keep | nsubj |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | conj |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 friends | amod |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keep | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 decades | case |
| 14 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keep | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Grown ups | friends | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | many | best friends | decade | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:28.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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