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title: Love words you may hear: «going out» means being boyfriend and girlf… — Safe and kind in gardens and forests · tree and pragmatics
description: Love words you may hear: «going out» means being boyfriend and girlfriend, «got her eye on him» means she likes him, and two letters in a heart, like «J + K», mean two people who love each other; it is their private business. Who acts: you, going, Kent, two letters. A sentence of the lesson «Safe an
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# Safe and kind in gardens and forests, sentence 26

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Love words you may hear: «going out» means being boyfriend and girlfriend, «got her eye on him» means she likes him, and two letters in a heart, like «J + K», mean two people who love each other; it is their private business.

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**Who acts:** you, going, Kent, two letters, two people, eye · **What happens:** hear, go out, mean, be, get, like · **To what, where:** Love words, boyfriend, eye, boy, two people, each · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in gardens and forests» 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 (you, going, Kent, two letters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:229-gardens-and-forests.lesson:26
# text = Love words you may hear: «going out» means being boyfriend and girlfriend, «got her eye on him» means she likes him, and two letters in a heart, like «J + K», mean two people who love each other; it is their private business.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 229-gardens-and-forests.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	appos	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl:relcl	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
38	J	J	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
39	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	40	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:advmod
40	K	K	NUM	CD	Abbr=Yes|NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	»	»	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	appos	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
44	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	47	obj	_	_
49	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	fixed	_	_
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
52	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
53	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
54	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **hear** | may | you | Love words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go out** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | going |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | gerund |  | boyfriend and girlfriend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | past |  | Kent's eye |  |  |  | on boy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on he=Source |
| 6 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **like** | present | Kent | boy |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 8 | **mean** | present | two letters in a heart | two people |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
| 9 | **love** | present | two people | each |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 10 | **is a** | present | eye | letters's private business |  |  |  |  | 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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**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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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