--- title: Being a friend isn't the same as being a parent, and Mihi can say, «… — Warm parents and strict parents · tree and pragmatics description: Being a friend isn't the same as being a parent, and Mihi can say, «I need you to listen, not joke.» Who acts: friend, Mihi, you. A sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» 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/493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents/24/) [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/) / [Warm parents and strict parents](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents/) / 24 # Warm parents and strict parents, sentence 24 Being a friend isn't the same as being a parent, and Mihi can say, «I need you to listen, not joke.» **Who acts:** friend, Mihi, you · **What happens:** be, not be, say, need, listen, not joke · **To what, where:** friend, parent, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» 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 (friend, Mihi, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.lesson:24 # text = Being a friend isn't the same as being a parent, and Mihi can say, «I need you to listen, not joke.» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 cop _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 Mihi Mihi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 joke joke VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 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** | gerund | | a friend | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | a friend | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | gerund | a friend *not said here* | a parent | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | Mihi | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **need** *in a quote* | present | Mihi | you | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **listen** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **joke** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=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:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.lesson:24`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Warm parents and strict parents, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents/23/) - next →: [Warm parents and strict parents, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents/)