--- title: Elijah's friend asks, «Can I come over? — Friends who get it · tree and pragmatics description: Elijah's friend asks, «Can I come over? Who acts: friend. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who get it» 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/525-friends-who-get-it/18/) [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/) / [Friends who get it](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/525-friends-who-get-it/) / 18 # Friends who get it, sentence 18 Elijah's friend asks, «Can I come over? **Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** ask, come over · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who get it» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:525-friends-who-get-it.lesson:18 # text = Elijah's friend asks, «Can I come over? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 525-friends-who-get-it.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): no change 1 Elijah Elijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 10 over over ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 ? ? 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Elijah's friend | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **come over** *in a quote* | can | Elijah's friend *= friend* | | | | | over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:525-friends-who-get-it.lesson:18`. **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): no change. **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: [Friends who get it, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/525-friends-who-get-it/17/) - next →: [Friends who get it, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/525-friends-who-get-it/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/525-friends-who-get-it/)