What a real friend is, sentence 25

A real friend turns up when it matters, keeps your secrets, says sorry and means it, and is the same in public and in private.

Who acts: real friend, it · What happens: turn up, matter, keep, say, mean, be · To what, where: secrets, sorry, friend, public · 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 (real friend, it), 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	3 friend	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 friend	amod
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 turns	compound:prt
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 matters	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 matters	nsubj
8	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turns	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 keeps	punct
10	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turns	conj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 secrets	nmod:poss
12	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keeps	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turns	conj
15	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 says	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 means	cc
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 says	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 means	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 same	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 same	cc
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 same	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 same	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turns	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 public	case
25	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 same	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 private	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 private	case
28	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 same	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn up	present	a real friend				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	matter	present	it				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	keep	present	a real friend not said here	your secrets			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	a real friend not said here	sorry			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic
5	mean	present	a real friend not said here	friend			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
6	is	present	a real friend not said here		public	same property	tree rules
7	be		a real friend not said here				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:25.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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