--- title: A real friend turns up when it matters, keeps your secrets, says sor… — What a real friend is · tree and pragmatics description: A real friend turns up when it matters, keeps your secrets, says sorry and means it, and is the same in public and in private. Who acts: real friend, it. 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 ev --- [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/25/) [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/) / 25 # What a real friend is, sentence 25 A real friend turns up when it matters, keeps your secrets, says sorry and means it, and is the same in public and in private. **Who acts:** real friend, it · **What happens:** turn up, matter, keep, say, mean, be · **To what, where:** secrets, sorry, friend, public · **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 (real friend, it), 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:25 # text = A real friend turns up when it matters, keeps your secrets, says sorry and means it, and is the same in public and in private. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 public public NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 29 . . 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 | **turn up** | present | a real friend | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **matter** | present | it | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **keep** | present | a real friend *not said here* | your secrets | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a real friend *not said here* | sorry | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | a real friend *not said here* | friend | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **is** | present | a real friend *not said here* | | | public | | same *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | a real friend *not said here* | | | | | | 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:25`. **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, R8-pos-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, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/24/) - next →: [What a real friend is, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/)