Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work, sentence 36
Old friends often bring back the way you talked and acted when you were young.
Who acts: Old friends, you · What happens: bring back, talk, act, be · To what, where: way
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 friends, you), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 friends | amod |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 talked | nsubj |
| 9 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | acl:relcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 acted | cc |
| 11 | acted | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 talked | conj |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 young | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 young | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 young | cop |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 acted | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | present | Old friends | the way | often property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 2 | talk | past | you | the way not said here | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 3 | act | past | you not said here | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | you | young 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:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:36.
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): no change. 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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