Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 18
People can have more than one best friend; a new friend does not cancel an old friendship.
Who acts: People, new friend · What happens: have, not cancel · To what, where: one best friend, old friendship
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, new friend), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 6 one | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 more | fixed |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 friend | nummod |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 friend | amod |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 friend | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 friend | amod |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cancel | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cancel | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 cancel | advmod |
| 15 | cancel | cancel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | parataxis |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 friendship | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 friendship | amod |
| 18 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cancel | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | can | People | one best friend | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not cancel | present · do-support | a new friend | a old friendship | 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:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:18.
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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