What a real friend is, sentence 19
Maddie in Perth and Lily at home are still best friends a year on; their calls are shorter, but Maddie still says «beanbag day» on the anniversary and Lily still eats a biscuit for it.
Who acts: Maddie, calls, Lily · What happens: be, say, eat, call · To what, where: best friends, anniversary, biscuit · 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 (Maddie, calls, Lily), 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 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 friends | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Perth | case |
| 3 | Perth | Perth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Maddie | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Lily | cc |
| 5 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Maddie | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Lily | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 friends | cop |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 friends | advmod |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 friends | amod |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 friends | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 year | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 shorter | punct |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 calls | nmod:poss |
| 17 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shorter | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 shorter | cop |
| 19 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 friends | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 says | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 says | cc |
| 22 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 says | nsubj |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 says | advmod |
| 24 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 friends | conj |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 day | punct |
| 26 | beanbag | beanbag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 day | compound |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 says | obj |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 day | punct |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 anniversary | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 anniversary | det |
| 31 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 says | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 eats | cc |
| 33 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 eats | nsubj |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 eats | advmod |
| 35 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 says | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 biscuit | det |
| 37 | biscuit | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 eats | obj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 eats | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Maddie in Perth and Lily at home | best friends | still; year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | Maddie's calls | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Maddie | the anniversary | still; day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | eat | present | Lily | a biscuit | still | for biscuit | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biscuit=Patient | ||
| 5 | call | Maddie | nom call «communication 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:485-what-a-real-friend-is.lesson:19.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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