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title: Lily's friend Hannah only invites her round the night before a test,… — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily's friend Hannah only invites her round the night before a test, to revise Hannah's weak bits — never Saturday, never fun. Who acts: friend. 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 
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# The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 23

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Lily's friend Hannah only invites her round the night before a test, to revise Hannah's weak bits — never Saturday, never fun.

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**Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** invite, revise · **To what, where:** Chloe, weak bits

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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 (friend), 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:23
# text = Lily's friend Hannah only invites her round the night before a test, to revise Hannah's weak bits — never Saturday, never fun.
# 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): no change
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	invites	invite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	revise	revise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
17	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | present | Lily's friend |  | Chloe |  | night |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Recipient |
| 2 | **revise** | to-infinitive | Lily's friend *not said here* | Hannah's weak bits |  |  | saturday |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |

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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:23`.

**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): no change. **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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