--- title: Connor's friend Ollie only messages when he needs something: help wi… — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics description: Connor's friend Ollie only messages when he needs something: help with maths homework, a lend of a charger, Connor's spare ticket to the match. Who acts: friend, Connor. 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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 (friend, Connor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something.lesson:0 # text = Connor's friend Ollie only messages when he needs something: help with maths homework, a lend of a charger, Connor's spare ticket to the match. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something.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 Connor Connor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 Ollie Ollie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 messages message VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 compound _ _ 15 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 lend lend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 appos _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 charger charger NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 Connor Connor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 spare spare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ticket ticket NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **message** | present | Connor's friend | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | friend | something | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | | 3 | **help** | infinitive | | | | | | with maths homework | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with homework=Theme | | 4 | **lend** | infinitive | | | | | | of a charger | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ticket** | | Connor | | | | | to the match | nom ticket «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | 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:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something.lesson:0`. **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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