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title: Being welcoming to new people often leads to good friendships, while… — Greeting neighbours and new people · tree and pragmatics
description: Being welcoming to new people often leads to good friendships, while being rude can hurt for a long time. A sentence of the lesson «Greeting neighbours and new people» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Greeting neighbours and new people, sentence 19

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Being welcoming to new people often leads to good friendships, while being rude can hurt for a long time.

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**What happens:** be, lead, hurt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting neighbours and new people» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people.lesson:19
# text = Being welcoming to new people often leads to good friendships, while being rude can hurt for a long time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 123-neighbours-and-new-people.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): no change
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	welcoming	welcoming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	friendships	friendship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
14	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to new people; welcoming *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to good friendships; often *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to friendship=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hurt** | can |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:123-neighbours-and-new-people.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): no change. **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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