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title: When a friend does well, say «Well done!» even if you did not do so… — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics
description: When a friend does well, say «Well done!» even if you did not do so well yourself. Who acts: friend, you. A sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 10

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When a friend does well, say «Well done!» even if you did not do so well yourself.

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**Who acts:** friend, you · **What happens:** do, say, not do · **To what, where:** yourself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» 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, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:10
# text = When a friend does well, say «Well done!» even if you did not do so well yourself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
9	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:parataxis
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
21	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **do** | present | a friend |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | you | yourself |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:10`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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