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title: Love you, babe.» Jess is going round the shops with older girls. — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics
description: Love you, babe.» Jess is going round the shops with older girls. Who acts: Jess. 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.
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# The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 17

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Love you, babe.» Jess is going round the shops with older girls.

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**Who acts:** Jess · **What happens:** love, go · **To what, where:** you, shops · **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 (Jess), 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:17
# text = Love you, babe.» Jess is going round the shops with older girls.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
7	Jess	Jess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **love** | present |  | you |  |  |  | babe *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Jess |  |  | the shops |  | with older girls | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round shop=Initial\_Location |

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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:17`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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