Hiding it from friends: being skint at school, sentence 31
A thank-you and being a good mate is enough, and next time Jamal can pay back with a favour, a drawing or a laugh.
Who acts: Jamal · What happens: be, pay back · To what, where: good mate
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» 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 (Jamal), 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 | 2 thank | det |
| 2 | thank | thank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enough | root |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 thank | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 thank | cc |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 mate | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mate | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mate | amod |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thank | conj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 enough | cop |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 enough | cc |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pay | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | Jamal | Jamal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 pay | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 pay | aux |
| 18 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 enough | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 pay | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 favour | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 favour | det |
| 22 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pay | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drawing | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 drawing | det |
| 25 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 favour | conj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 favour | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 laugh | det |
| 28 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 favour | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 enough | 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 | gerund | a good mate | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | enough property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pay back | can | Jamal | time | with a favour and a drawing and a laugh | vn pay-68-1 «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:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:31.
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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