What a real friend is, sentence 0
Sam's dad asks, «So what makes a real friend?» Sam thinks of Jake turning up with Monster Munch for a rematch, Tom swapping sleeping bags for Kieran, Mr Grimshaw with his tomatoes.
Who acts: dad, Sam, Jake, Tom · What happens: ask, make, think, turn up, swapping · To what, where: real friend, sleeping bags · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «What a real friend is» 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 (dad, Sam, Jake, Tom), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
| 7 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 makes | advmod |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asks | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 friend | det |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 friend | amod |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
| 15 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 thinks | nsubj |
| 16 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asks | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Jake | case |
| 18 | Jake | jake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thinks | obl |
| 19 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 Jake | acl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 turning | compound:prt |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Munch | case |
| 22 | Monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Munch | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Munch | Munch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 turning | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 rematch | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 rematch | det |
| 26 | rematch | rematch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turning | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 swapping | punct |
| 28 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 swapping | nsubj |
| 29 | swapping | swapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rematch | conj |
| 30 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bags | compound |
| 31 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 swapping | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 Kieran | case |
| 33 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 swapping | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Mr | punct |
| 35 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Kieran | conj |
| 36 | Grimshaw | Grimshaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Mr | flat |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 tomatoes | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 tomatoes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | tomatoes | tomato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 swapping | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Sam's dad | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | a real friend | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material friend=Product | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | Sam | of Jake | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | turn up | gerund | Jake not said here | with Munch Monster; for a rematch and swapping | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | swapping | Tom | sleeping bags | for Kieran and Mr; with Tom's tomatoes | 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:485-what-a-real-friend-is.lesson:0.
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, 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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