Friends who get it, sentence 27
«That boy's a good friend,» Kwesi's mum says, and she sends Tom home with a tub of her jollof rice.
Who acts: boy, mum · What happens: be, say, send · To what, where: good friend, Tom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who get it» 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 (boy, mum), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 friend | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 friend | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friend | amod |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 10 | Kwesi | Kwesi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mum | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Kwesi | case |
| 12 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sends | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sends | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sends | nsubj |
| 17 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 says | conj |
| 18 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sends | obj |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 sends | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 tub | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tub | det |
| 22 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sends | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 rice | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 rice | nmod:poss |
| 25 | jollof | jollof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rice | compound |
| 26 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tub | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | 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 in a quote | present | that boy | a good friend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Kwesi's mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | send | present | mum | Tom | with a tub of Kwesi's jollof rice; home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Theme |
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:525-friends-who-get-it.lesson:27.
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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