--- title: He spends more time with Raj, who never asks for anything and always… — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics description: He spends more time with Raj, who never asks for anything and always brings two biscuits. Who acts: Ollie. 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/7/) [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/) / 7 # The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 7 He spends more time with Raj, who never asks for anything and always brings two biscuits. **Who acts:** Ollie · **What happens:** spend, not ask, bring · **To what, where:** two biscuits 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 (Ollie), 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:7 # text = He spends more time with Raj, who never asks for anything and always brings two biscuits. # 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, R5-strong ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spends spend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Raj Raj PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 14 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 15 advmod _ _ 15 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 biscuits biscuit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 . . 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 | **spend** | present | Ollie | | | | time | with Raj | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | present | | | | | | for anything | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bring** | present | | two biscuits | | | | always *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent biscuit=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:7`. **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, R5-strong ×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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