--- title: Lend only what you would be all right about losing, and ask for it b… — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics description: Lend only what you would be all right about losing, and ask for it back looked after. Who acts: you. 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 the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/39/) [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/) / 39 # The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 39 Lend only what you would be all right about losing, and ask for it back looked after. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** lend, be, lose, ask, look after 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 (you), 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:39 # text = Lend only what you would be all right about losing, and ask for it back looked after. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Lend lend VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 1 obj _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 7 all all ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 about about SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 back back ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 after after ADP IN _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lend** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 2 | **is** | would | you | | | | | all, right *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lose** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | for money | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **look after** | past | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:39`. **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): R7-rel-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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