--- title: When grown-ups call someone a «friend» in a special way, or say two… — White lies and kind silence · tree and pragmatics description: When grown-ups call someone a «friend» in a special way, or say two people are «more than friends», they usually mean a boyfriend or girlfriend, a couple; that is their private business. Who acts: grown ups, two people, people, that. 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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 (grown ups, two people, people, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:21 # text = When grown-ups call someone a «friend» in a special way, or say two people are «more than friends», they usually mean a boyfriend or girlfriend, a couple; that is their private business. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.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 ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 24 advmod _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 ccomp _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 usually usually ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 boyfriend boyfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 girlfriend girlfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 38 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 40 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | infinitive | grown ups | | someone | a special way | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | two people | friends and people's private business | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | people | a boyfriend or girlfriend and a couple | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boyfriend=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | that | people's private business | | | | | tree rules | 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:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:21`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [White lies and kind silence, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/20/) - next →: [White lies and kind silence, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/)