What a real friend is, sentence 29
Pets can be real friends, and they need looking after in return.
Who acts: Pets · What happens: be, need, look after · To what, where: real friends, return
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 (Pets), 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 | Pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 friends | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 friends | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 friends | cop |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friends | amod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 need | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 need | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 need | nsubj |
| 9 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 friends | conj |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 need | xcomp |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 looking | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 return | case |
| 13 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | can | Pets | real friends | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | Pets = pet | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look after not said to happen | gerund | Pets = pet not said here | return | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:29.
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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