Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work, sentence 30
A friend can be fun and still have faults, like swearing or moaning; you don't have to copy their faults.
Who acts: friend, you, ups · What happens: be, have, swear, moan, not have, copy · To what, where: faults
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 (friend, you, ups), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 friend | det |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fun | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fun | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fun | cop |
| 5 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 have | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fun | conj |
| 9 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swearing | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 swearing | case |
| 12 | swearing | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 faults | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 moaning | cc |
| 14 | moaning | moan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 swearing | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 have | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fun | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 copy | mark |
| 21 | copy | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 have | xcomp |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 faults | nmod:poss |
| 23 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 copy | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | a friend | fun property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a friend not said here | faults | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient | |||
| 3 | swear | gerund | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | moan | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not have | present · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | copy | to-infinitive | you not said here | ups's faults | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fault | ups = up | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:30.
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): R7-rel-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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