--- title: Never lie to a parent to cover for a friend; a real friend shouldn't… — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics description: Never lie to a parent to cover for a friend; a real friend shouldn't ask you to. Who acts: you, real 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 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/40/) [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/) / 40 # The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 40 Never lie to a parent to cover for a friend; a real friend shouldn't ask you to. **Who acts:** you, real friend · **What happens:** not lie, cover, not ask · **To what, where:** you 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, real 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:40 # text = Never lie to a parent to cover for a friend; a real friend shouldn't ask you to. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 lie lie VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 17 xcomp _ _ 20 . . 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 | **not** **lie** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | to a parent | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cover** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | for a friend | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | should | a real friend | | you | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | 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:40`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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