--- title: A good friend lets you climb down from a boast; «I can't actually, b… — The friend with a PS6 · tree and pragmatics description: A good friend lets you climb down from a boast; «I can't actually, but I can do this» is fine. Who acts: good friend, you, friend. A sentence of the lesson «The friend with a PS6» 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/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/32/) [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/) / [The friend with a PS6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/) / 32 # The friend with a PS6, sentence 32 A good friend lets you climb down from a boast; «I can't actually, but I can do this» is fine. **Who acts:** good friend, you, friend · **What happens:** let, climb down, do, be · **To what, where:** you, boast, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend with a PS6» 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 (good friend, you, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.lesson:32 # text = A good friend lets you climb down from a boast; «I can't actually, but I can do this» is fine. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.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 ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 down down ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 boast boast NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj 14 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 16 actually actually ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 csubj _ _ 22 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 obj _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | present | a good friend | you | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **climb down** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | a boast | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from boast=Trajectory | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | can | photo's friend *= friend* | this | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 4 | **is** | present | a good friend *not said here* | | | | | fine *property* | 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](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:434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.lesson:32`. **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 ×3. **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: [The friend with a PS6, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/31/) - next →: [The friend with a PS6, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/33/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/)