--- title: Maddie in Perth and Lily at home are still best friends a year on; t… — What a real friend is · tree and pragmatics description: Maddie in Perth and Lily at home are still best friends a year on; their calls are shorter, but Maddie still says «beanbag day» on the anniversary and Lily still eats a biscuit for it. Who acts: Maddie, calls, Lily. 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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 (Maddie, calls, Lily), 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:19 # text = Maddie in Perth and Lily at home are still best friends a year on; their calls are shorter, but Maddie still says «beanbag day» on the anniversary and Lily still eats a biscuit for it. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Perth Perth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 on on ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 beanbag beanbag NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl:unmarked 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 anniversary anniversary NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:obl 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 still still ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 biscuit biscuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:nmod 40 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 a** | present | Maddie in Perth and Lily at home | best friends | | | still; year | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | Maddie's calls | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Maddie | | | the anniversary | still; day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **eat** | present | Lily | a biscuit | | | still | for biscuit | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biscuit=Patient | | 5 | **call** | | Maddie | | | | | | nom call «communication 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:485-what-a-real-friend-is.lesson:19`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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: [What a real friend is, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/18/) - next →: [What a real friend is, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/)