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title: «That boy's a good friend,» Kwesi's mum says, and she sends Tom home… — Friends who get it · tree and pragmatics
description: «That boy's a good friend,» Kwesi's mum says, and she sends Tom home with a tub of her jollof rice. Who acts: boy, mum. 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.
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# Friends who get it, sentence 27

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«That boy's a good friend,» Kwesi's mum says, and she sends Tom home with a tub of her jollof rice.

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**Who acts:** boy, mum · **What happens:** be, say, send · **To what, where:** good friend, Tom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (boy, mum), 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:27
# text = «That boy's a good friend,» Kwesi's mum says, and she sends Tom home with a tub of her jollof rice.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
2	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	Kwesi	Kwesi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	jollof	jollof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:amod
26	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that boy | a good friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kwesi's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **send** | present | mum | Tom |  |  |  | with a tub of Kwesi's jollof rice; home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Theme |

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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:525-friends-who-get-it.lesson:27`.

**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. **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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