What a real friend is, sentence 35
An enemy can become a friend, sometimes because of one small kind act.
Who acts: enemy · What happens: become · To what, where: 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 (enemy), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 enemy | det |
| 2 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 friend | det |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 act | punct |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 act | advmod |
| 9 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 act | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 because | fixed |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 act | nummod |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 act | amod |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 act | compound |
| 14 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | can | a enemy | a friend | because one small kind act | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:35.
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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