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title: «S'pose» means suppose, «obvs» means obviously, and «cheers» can mea… — What a real friend is · tree and pragmatics
description: «S'pose» means suppose, «obvs» means obviously, and «cheers» can mean thanks. Who acts: S'pose, obvs, cheers. 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.
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# What a real friend is, sentence 37

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«S'pose» means suppose, «obvs» means obviously, and «cheers» can mean thanks.

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**Who acts:** S'pose, obvs, cheers · **What happens:** mean, suppose · **To what, where:** thanks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (S'pose, obvs, cheers), 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:37
# text = «S'pose» means suppose, «obvs» means obviously, and «cheers» can mean thanks.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	S'pose	s'pose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	obvs	obv	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	cheers	cheer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | S'pose |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **suppose** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | obvs |  |  |  |  | obviously *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | can | cheers | thanks |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic |

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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.

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**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:37`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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