Friends, teams and fair play, sentence 23

When people say an adult has a new lady friend or boyfriend, they mean a new girlfriend or partner, and that is the adult's private business.

Who acts: people, adult, that · What happens: say, have, mean, be · To what, where: new lady friend, new girlfriend, private business · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends, teams and fair play» 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 (people, adult, that), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 say	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 mean	advcl
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 adult	det
5	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 friend	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 friend	amod
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 friend	compound
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 boyfriend	cc
12	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 friend	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mean	nsubj
15	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 girlfriend	det
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 girlfriend	amod
18	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mean	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 partner	cc
20	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 girlfriend	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 business	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 business	cc
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 business	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 business	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 adult	det
26	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 business	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 adult	case
28	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 business	amod
29	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mean	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 mean	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	people		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	a adult	a new lady friend or boyfriend	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
3	mean	present	People	a new girlfriend or partner	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girlfriend=Topic
4	is a	present	that	the adult's private business	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:052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.lesson:23.

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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