--- title: Turning a favour into time together shows whether a person wanted yo… — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics description: Turning a favour into time together shows whether a person wanted you or only your things. Who acts: Turning, person. 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 cla --- [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/43/) [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/) / 43 # The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 43 Turning a favour into time together shows whether a person wanted you or only your things. **Who acts:** Turning, person · **What happens:** turn, show, want · **To what, where:** favour, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Turning, person), 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:43 # text = Turning a favour into time together shows whether a person wanted you or only your things. # 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 ×1 1 Turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | gerund | | a favour | | | time | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent favour=Theme | | 2 | **show** | present | Turning | | | | | together *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **want** | past | a person | you | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | 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:43`. **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 ×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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