--- title: Alfie lent his friend his own PE kit and sat out PE himself. — Covering for a friend · tree and pragmatics description: Alfie lent his friend his own PE kit and sat out PE himself. Who acts: Alfie. A sentence of the lesson «Covering for 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/436-covering-for-a-friend/22/) [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/) / [Covering for a friend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/) / 22 # Covering for a friend, sentence 22 Alfie lent his friend his own PE kit and sat out PE himself. **Who acts:** Alfie · **What happens:** lend, sit out · **To what, where:** own PE kit, friend, PE This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering for 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 (Alfie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:22 # text = Alfie lent his friend his own PE kit and sat out PE himself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 436-covering-for-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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Alfie Alfie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lent lend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 PE pe NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 kit kit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 PE pe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod:unmarked 14 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lend** | past | Alfie | Alfie's own PE kit | Alfie's friend | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient kit=Theme | | 2 | **sit out** | past | Alfie *not said here* | PE | | | | Alfie *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pe=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:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:22`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Covering for a friend, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/21/) - next →: [Covering for a friend, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/)