--- title: Friendships change as people move, start jobs and have families; som… — Being a good grown-up · tree and pragmatics description: Friendships change as people move, start jobs and have families; some fade, new ones grow, and old friends can sometimes pick up again as if no time had passed. Who acts: Friendships, people, some, new ones. A sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» of the adult life course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/8/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Being a good grown-up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/) / 8 # Being a good grown-up, sentence 8 Friendships change as people move, start jobs and have families; some fade, new ones grow, and old friends can sometimes pick up again as if no time had passed. **Who acts:** Friendships, people, some, new ones, old friends, time · **What happens:** change, move, start, have, fade, grow · **To what, where:** jobs, families This is a sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» of the adult life 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 (Friendships, people, some, new ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:8 # text = Friendships change as people move, start jobs and have families; some fade, new ones grow, and old friends can sometimes pick up again as if no time had passed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 040-being-a-good-grown-up.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Friendships friendship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound 2 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 7 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ _ 14 fade fade VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 again again ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Friendships | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **move** | present | people | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **start** | present | people *not said here* | jobs | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 4 | **have** | present | people *not said here* | families | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | | 5 | **fade** | present | some | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **grow** | present | new ones | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **pick up** | can | old friends | | | | again | sometimes *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **pass** | past · perfect | no time | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:adult-life:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:8`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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: [Being a good grown-up, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/7/) - next →: [Being a good grown-up, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/)