--- title: In tests Bella whispers «what did you get for number 6?» and Chloe t… — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics description: In tests Bella whispers «what did you get for number 6?» and Chloe tells her, but when Chloe asks for help with fractions, Bella is «too busy». Who acts: Bella, you, Chloe. A sentence of the lesson «The friend who only calls when they need something» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school w --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 21 In tests Bella whispers «what did you get for number 6?» and Chloe tells her, but when Chloe asks for help with fractions, Bella is «too busy». **Who acts:** Bella, you, Chloe · **What happens:** whisper, get, tell, ask, be · **To what, where:** tests, Bella · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Bella, you, Chloe), 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:21 # text = In tests Bella whispers «what did you get for number 6?» and Chloe tells her, but when Chloe asks for help with fractions, Bella is «too busy». # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 3 Bella Bella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 whispers whisper VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 7 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 12 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 flat _ _ 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 Chloe Chloe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 Chloe Chloe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 fractions fraction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 29 Bella Bella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 32 too too ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whisper** *speech: ask* | present | Bella | | | tests | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | | | | | for number | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme for number=Source | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Chloe | | Bella | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Chloe | | | | | for help with fractions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Bella | | | | | busy *property* | tree rules | 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:21`. **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, R7-rel-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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