Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours, sentence 29

Testing friends with a trick can show who cares, but it is a bit sneaky; noticing who stays works without tricks.

Who acts: Testing friends, trick, noticing · What happens: show, care, be, notice, stay, work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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 (Testing friends, trick, noticing), 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	Testing	testing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 friends	compound
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 show	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 trick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 trick	det
5	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 friends	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 show	aux
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cares	nsubj
9	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 show	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sneaky	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 sneaky	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sneaky	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sneaky	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bit	det
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sneaky	obl:unmarked
16	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 show	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 noticing	punct
18	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 works	csubj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 stays	nsubj
20	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 noticing	ccomp
21	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sneaky	parataxis
22	without	without	ADP	_	23 tricks	case
23	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 works	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	show	can	Testing friends with a trick		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	care	present			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	trick	a bit obl:unmarked; sneaky property	tree rules
4	notice	gerund			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	stay	present			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	work	present	noticing	without tricks	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.lesson:29.

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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