Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work, sentence 32
Even an old friend should respect your family; standing up to a friend can be the right thing.
Who acts: old friend, standing · What happens: respect, stand up, be · To what, where: family, right thing
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 (old friend, standing), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 friend | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friend | amod |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 respect | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 respect | aux |
| 6 | respect | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 family | nmod:poss |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 respect | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 respect | punct |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 thing | csubj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 standing | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 friend | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 friend | det |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 standing | obl |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 thing | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 thing | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thing | amod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 respect | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 respect | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respect | should | a old friend | your family | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand up | gerund | to a friend | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | can | standing | the right thing | 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:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:32.
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. 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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