--- title: He writes a list: turns up, keeps secrets, says sorry and means it,… — What a real friend is · tree and pragmatics description: He writes a list: turns up, keeps secrets, says sorry and means it, is the same in front of everyone. Who acts: Sam. A sentence of the lesson «What a real friend is» 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/485-what-a-real-friend-is/1/) [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/) / [What a real friend is](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/) / 1 # What a real friend is, sentence 1 He writes a list: turns up, keeps secrets, says sorry and means it, is the same in front of everyone. **Who acts:** Sam · **What happens:** write, turn up, keep, say, mean, be · **To what, where:** list, secrets, sorry, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «What a real friend is» 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 (Sam), 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:1 # text = He writes a list: turns up, keeps secrets, says sorry and means it, is the same in front of everyone. # 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 ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:appos 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 22 nmod _ _ 25 . . 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 | **write** | present | Sam | a list | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme | | 2 | **turn up** | present | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | | secrets | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | sorry | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | | list | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **is** | present | Sam *not said here* | | | front of everyone | | same *property* | 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:1`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What a real friend is, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/0/) - next →: [What a real friend is, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/)