--- title: When Mum says "We're just friends", she means they are friends, not… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: When Mum says "We're just friends", she means they are friends, not boyfriend and girlfriend, and you can believe her. Who acts: Mum, We, pressure, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mum, We, pressure, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:016-new-partners-and-step-families.lesson:10 # text = When Mum says "We're just friends", she means they are friends, not boyfriend and girlfriend, and you can believe her. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 016-new-partners-and-step-families.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 5 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 ccomp _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 boyfriend boyfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nmod 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 girlfriend girlfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | We | friends | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | pressure | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | mum | friends and boyfriend and girlfriend | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **believe** | can | you | pressure | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | 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:adult-life:016-new-partners-and-step-families.lesson:10`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [New partners and step-families, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/9/) - next →: [New partners and step-families, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/)