--- title: «A fair-weather friend is here for the sunshine and gone when it rai… — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics description: «A fair-weather friend is here for the sunshine and gone when it rains, sugar,» Grandma says. Who acts: weather friend, it, Grandma. 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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 (weather friend, it, Grandma), 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:27 # text = «A fair-weather friend is here for the sunshine and gone when it rains, sugar,» Grandma says. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:parataxis 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 13 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 rains rain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 vocative _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 21 Grandma Grandma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a weather friend | | | | | for the sunshine; here *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | | a weather friend *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **rain** *in a quote* | present | it | | | | | sugar *vocative* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grandma | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:27`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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