--- title: A friend can be fun and still have faults, like swearing or moaning;… — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work · tree and pragmatics description: A friend can be fun and still have faults, like swearing or moaning; you don't have to copy their faults. Who acts: friend, you, ups. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, you, ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:30 # text = A friend can be fun and still have faults, like swearing or moaning; you don't have to copy their faults. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 still still ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 faults fault NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 swearing swear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 nmod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 moaning moan VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 copy copy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 faults fault NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | a friend | | | | | fun *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | a friend *not said here* | faults | | | still | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient | | 3 | **swear** | gerund | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **moan** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **copy** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | ups's faults | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Theme | | 7 | **fault** | | ups *= up* | | | | | | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=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:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:30`. **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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