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title: Liking someone «like like» means having a crush, liking them as more… — Growing up, honesty and manners · tree and pragmatics
description: Liking someone «like like» means having a crush, liking them as more than a friend; a friend who tells you this trusts you to keep it private. Who acts: friend. A sentence of the lesson «Growing up, honesty and manners» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Growing up, honesty and manners, sentence 19

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Liking someone «like like» means having a crush, liking them as more than a friend; a friend who tells you this trusts you to keep it private.

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**Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** like, mean, have, tell, trust, keep · **To what, where:** someone, crush, news, this, you, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing up, honesty and manners» 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:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.lesson:19
# text = Liking someone «like like» means having a crush, liking them as more than a friend; a friend who tells you this trusts you to keep it private.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Liking	like	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
4	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
5	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crush	crush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	liking	like	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	_
26	trusts	trust	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **like** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  | a crush |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crush=Patient |
| 4 | **like** | gerund |  | news |  |  |  | more *obl* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a friend | this | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient this=Topic |
| 6 | **trust** | present | a friend | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **keep** | to-infinitive | a friend *not said here* | friend |  |  |  | private *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.lesson:19`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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