--- title: Chloe stops whispering answers, and finds a study buddy, Aisha, who… — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics description: Chloe stops whispering answers, and finds a study buddy, Aisha, who helps with fractions and asks for help with spelling. Who acts: Chloe, study buddy. 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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 (Chloe, study buddy), 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:22 # text = Chloe stops whispering answers, and finds a study buddy, Aisha, who helps with fractions and asks for help with spelling. # 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 ×2 1 Chloe Chloe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 whispering whisper VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 4 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 buddy buddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Aisha Aisha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 fractions fraction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | Chloe | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | Chloe *not said here* | answers | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic | | 3 | **find** | present | Chloe *not said here* | a study buddy | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddy=Topic | | 4 | **help** | present | a study buddy | | | | | with fractions | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fraction=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a study buddy *not said here* | | | | | for help with spelling | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:22`. **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 ×2. **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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