What a real friend is, sentence 3
A real friend is shown by what they do, not by what they say.
Who acts: secrets · What happens: show, do, say · To what, where: real friend · 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 (secrets), 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 | 5 shown | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shown | aux:pass |
| 5 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 shown | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 what | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 shown | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · passive | a real friend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | do | present | secrets = secret | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | secrets = secret | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:3.
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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