What a real friend is, sentence 36
Respecting an animal's space, like a growly dog's, is a kind of friendship too.
Who acts: Respecting · What happens: respect, be · To what, where: space, kind
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 (Respecting), 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 | Respecting | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 kind | csubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 space | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 animal | case |
| 5 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Respecting | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Respecting | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 dog | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 9 | growly | growly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dog | amod |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Respecting | obl |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 dog | case |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Respecting | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 kind | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 kind | det |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 friendship | case |
| 17 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kind | nmod |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 kind | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respect | gerund | a animal's space | like a growly dog | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer space=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Respecting | a kind | of friendship | 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:36.
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 ×1. 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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