Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings, sentence 19

Boys and girls can be just friends; teasing that a friend is your boyfriend or girlfriend is not funny if it upsets you, and a parent can help.

Who acts: friend, girlfriend, parent · What happens: be, tease, not be, upset, help · To what, where: friends, boyfriend, you

This is a sentence of the lesson «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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 (friend, girlfriend, parent), 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	Boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 girls	cc
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Boys	conj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 friends	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 friends	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 friends	advmod
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Boys	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 funny	punct
9	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 funny	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 boyfriend	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 friend	det
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boyfriend	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 boyfriend	cop
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 boyfriend	nmod:poss
15	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 teasing	ccomp
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 girlfriend	cc
17	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boyfriend	conj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 funny	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 funny	advmod
20	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Boys	parataxis
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 upsets	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 upsets	nsubj
23	upsets	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 funny	advcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 upsets	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 help	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 help	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 parent	det
28	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 help	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 help	aux
30	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 upsets	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Boys	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	can		friends		tree rules
2	tease	gerund				vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	a friend	your boyfriend or girlfriend		tree rules
4	not is	present			funny property	tree rules
5	upset a condition, not said to happen	present	girlfriend	you		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
6	help	can	a parent			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:19.

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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