--- title: If someone's kindness has a price tag, it isn't really kindness. — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics description: If someone's kindness has a price tag, it isn't really kindness. Who acts: kindness. 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/46/) [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/) / 46 # The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 46 If someone's kindness has a price tag, it isn't really kindness. **Who acts:** kindness · **What happens:** have, not be · **To what, where:** price tag, kindness 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 (kindness), 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:46 # text = If someone's kindness has a price tag, it isn't really kindness. # 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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 tag tag NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 really really ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone's kindness | a price tag | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tag=Patient | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | kindness | kindness | | | | | tree rules | 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:46`. **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): no change. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The friend who only calls when they ne…, 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something/45/) - next →: [The friend who only calls when they ne…, 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something/47/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something/)