Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work, sentence 33
A one-way friend only takes, like borrowing and never paying back; it is fine to stop giving.
Who acts: way friend · What happens: take, borrow, not pay back, be, stop, give
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 (way 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 way | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 friend | compound |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 takes | advmod |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 borrowing | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 borrowing | case |
| 10 | borrowing | borrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 takes | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 paying | cc |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 paying | advmod |
| 13 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 borrowing | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 paying | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 fine | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fine | expl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fine | cop |
| 18 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 takes | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 stop | mark |
| 20 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fine | csubj |
| 21 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 stop | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | 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 | take | present | a way friend | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | borrow | gerund | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not pay back | gerund | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stop | to-infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | give | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:33.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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