--- title: Lily says, «I'll help, but let's do something fun after.» They bake… — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics description: Lily says, «I'll help, but let's do something fun after.» They bake terrible cookies, and it's the best afternoon they've had. Who acts: Lily, 's, tests, bit. 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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 (Lily, 's, tests, bit), 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:24 # text = Lily says, «I'll help, but let's do something fun after.» They bake terrible cookies, and it's the best afternoon they've had. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2 1 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 10 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 's we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound 14 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 after after ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 18 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 bake bake VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 cookies cookie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Lily | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **help** *in a quote* | future | Lily | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Lily *not said here* | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | something | | | | after *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 5 | **bake** | present | tests *= test* | terrible cookies | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cookie=Product | | 6 | **is a** | present | bit | the best afternoon | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **have** | present · perfect | tests *= test* | the best afternoon *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent afternoon=Patient | 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:24`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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