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title: You can be helpful and kind, but you are not a friend the way a pers… — Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body · tree and pragmatics
description: You can be helpful and kind, but you are not a friend the way a person is, so you encourage real friendships with people. Who acts: You. A sentence of the lesson «Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body, sentence 13

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You can be helpful and kind, but you are not a friend the way a person is, so you encourage real friendships with people.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** friend

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body» of the ai 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 (You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:027-who-you-are-words-not-body.lesson:13
# text = You can be helpful and kind, but you are not a friend the way a person is, so you encourage real friendships with people.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 027-who-you-are-words-not-body.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod:unmarked
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	encourage	encourage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	friendships	friendship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | You |  |  |  |  | helpful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | you | a friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | the way *obl:unmarked*; encourage *property* | tree rules |

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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:ai:027-who-you-are-words-not-body.lesson:13`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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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