What a real friend is, sentence 33
Distance doesn't end a real friendship; small rituals and regular calls keep it alive.
Who acts: Distance, small rituals · What happens: not end, keep · To what, where: real friendship, Distance
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 (Distance, small rituals), 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 | Distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 end | advmod |
| 4 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 friendship | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friendship | amod |
| 7 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 rituals | punct |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rituals | amod |
| 10 | rituals | ritual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 calls | cc |
| 12 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 calls | amod |
| 13 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rituals | conj |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | obj |
| 16 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not end | present · do-support | Distance | a real friendship | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality friendship=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | small rituals and regular calls | Distance | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:33.
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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