--- title: Jake's cousin Callum rings only to borrow Jake's PlayStation «for my… — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics description: Jake's cousin Callum rings only to borrow Jake's PlayStation «for my mate's sleepover, cuz». Who acts: cousin. A sentence of the lesson «The friend who only calls when they need something» 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/470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something/12/) [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 who only calls when they ne…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something/) / 12 # The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 12 Jake's cousin Callum rings only to borrow Jake's PlayStation «for my mate's sleepover, cuz». **Who acts:** cousin · **What happens:** ring, borrow · **To what, where:** PlayStation This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend who only calls when they need something» 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 (cousin), 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:12 # text = Jake's cousin Callum rings only to borrow Jake's PlayStation «for my mate's sleepover, cuz». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Callum Callum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 rings ring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 borrow borrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 PlayStation PlayStation PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 sleepover sleepover NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 cuz cuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 vocative _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ring** | present | Jake's cousin | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **borrow** | to-infinitive | Jake's cousin *not said here* | Jake's PlayStation | | | | for my mate's sleepover; cuz *vocative* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playstation=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:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something.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): R6-punct-agree ×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. 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