--- title: The best man is usually the groom's closest friend or brother; he he… — Dates, engagements and weddings · tree and pragmatics description: The best man is usually the groom's closest friend or brother; he helps on the day and makes a speech, which makes many people nervous. Who acts: best man, man, speech. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best man, man, speech), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:12 # text = The best man is usually the groom's closest friend or brother; he helps on the day and makes a speech, which makes many people nervous. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson # annotation = 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 groom groom NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 closest close ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the best man | the groom's closest friend or brother | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | man | | | | day | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present | man *not said here* | a speech | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product | | 4 | **make** | present | a speech | many people | | | | nervous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/11/) - next →: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/)