Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 12

Some people prefer quiet friends and some like loud ones; real friends like you as you are, and you don't have to switch yourself off.

Who acts: people, some, you · What happens: prefer, like, be, not have, switch off · To what, where: quiet friends, loud ones, yourself

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» of the reflection 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, some, you), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prefer	nsubj
3	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friends	amod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prefer	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 like	cc
7	some	some	PRON	PronType=Ind	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prefer	conj
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 like	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 friends	punct
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 friends	amod
13	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 friends	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 friends	nmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 are	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 are	nsubj
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prefer	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 have	advmod
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prefer	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 switch	mark
26	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 have	xcomp
27	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 switch	obj
28	off	off	ADP	_	26 switch	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prefer	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	prefer	present	some people	quiet friends and real friends like you	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus
2	like	present	some	loud ones	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme
3	does	present	you		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not have	present · do-support	you		tree rules
5	switch off	to-infinitive	you not said here	yourself	vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient

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:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:12.

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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