--- title: He helps Freddie out, picks a banana skin off his jumper, walks him… — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics description: He helps Freddie out, picks a banana skin off his jumper, walks him to the office and stays with him till his mum comes. Who acts: Sam, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Standing by a friend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/) / 2 # Standing by a friend, sentence 2 He helps Freddie out, picks a banana skin off his jumper, walks him to the office and stays with him till his mum comes. **Who acts:** Sam, mum · **What happens:** help out, pick, walk, stay, come · **To what, where:** Freddie, banana skin, Sam, office This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» 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 (Sam, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:2 # text = He helps Freddie out, picks a banana skin off his jumper, walks him to the office and stays with him till his mum comes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 370-standing-by-a-friend.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): R5-strong ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Freddie Freddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 banana banana NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 off off ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 jumper jumper NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 20 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 till till SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help out** | present | Sam | | Freddie | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freddie=Beneficiary | | 2 | **pick** | present | Sam *not said here* | a banana skin | | | | off Sam's jumper | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | | 3 | **walk** | present | Sam *not said here* | Sam | | the office | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to office=Trajectory | | 4 | **stay** | present | Sam *not said here* | | | | | with Sam | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location | | 5 | **come** | present | Sam's mum | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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](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:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:2`. **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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Standing by a friend, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/1/) - next →: [Standing by a friend, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/)