What a real friend is, sentence 28
You can respect someone without being their friend.
Who acts: You · What happens: respect, be · To what, where: someone, friend
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 respect | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 respect | aux |
| 3 | respect | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 respect | obj |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 friend | mark |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | VerbForm=Ger | 8 friend | cop |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 respect | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 respect | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respect | can | You | someone | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | You not said here | people's friend | 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:28.
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 ×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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