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title: This time Jake says, «Nah, but come round and play here.» Callum com… — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics
description: This time Jake says, «Nah, but come round and play here.» Callum comes, and it's actually a laugh. Who acts: Jake, Callum, 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
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# The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 14

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This time Jake says, «Nah, but come round and play here.» Callum comes, and it's actually a laugh.

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**Who acts:** Jake, Callum, cousin · **What happens:** say, come round, play, come, be · **To what, where:** laugh · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Jake, Callum, 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:14
# text = This time Jake says, «Nah, but come round and play here.» Callum comes, and it's actually a laugh.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
17	Callum	Callum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=18:punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jake |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come round** *in a quote* | infinitive | Jake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **play** *in a quote* | infinitive | Jake *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | present | Callum |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | cousin | a laugh |  |  |  | actually *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:14`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

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