--- title: Sam's dad asks, «So what makes a real friend?» Sam thinks of Jake tu… — What a real friend is · tree and pragmatics description: Sam's dad asks, «So what makes a real friend?» Sam thinks of Jake turning up with Monster Munch for a rematch, Tom swapping sleeping bags for Kieran, Mr Grimshaw with his tomatoes. Who acts: dad, Sam, Jake, Tom. 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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 (dad, Sam, Jake, Tom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:485-what-a-real-friend-is.lesson:0 # text = Sam's dad asks, «So what makes a real friend?» Sam thinks of Jake turning up with Monster Munch for a rematch, Tom swapping sleeping bags for Kieran, Mr Grimshaw with his tomatoes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 485-what-a-real-friend-is.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 So so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 15 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Jake jake NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 Monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:desc _ _ 23 Munch Munch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 rematch rematch NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 swapping swapping NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:conj 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 Grimshaw Grimshaw PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 flat _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 tomatoes tomato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Sam's dad | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present | | a real friend | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material friend=Product | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Sam | | | | | of Jake | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **turn up** | gerund | Jake *not said here* | | | | | with Munch Monster; for a rematch and swapping | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **swapping** | | Tom | sleeping bags | | | | for Kieran and Mr; with Tom's tomatoes | 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:485-what-a-real-friend-is.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Enemies who became friends, and ones w…, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did/35/) - next →: [What a real friend is, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/)