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title: Idle time with friends who egg you on makes trouble more likely; clu… — Confession, prayer and making amends at church · tree and pragmatics
description: Idle time with friends who egg you on makes trouble more likely; clubs and hobbies help change habits. Who acts: friends, Idle time, clubs. A sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 25

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Idle time with friends who egg you on makes trouble more likely; clubs and hobbies help change habits.

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**Who acts:** friends, Idle time, clubs · **What happens:** egg on, make, help, change · **To what, where:** you, trouble, habits

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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 (friends, Idle time, clubs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:25
# text = Idle time with friends who egg you on makes trouble more likely; clubs and hobbies help change habits.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.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
1	Idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	egg	egg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hobbies	hobby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
19	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17: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 | **egg on** | present | friends |  | you |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | present | Idle time with friends | trouble |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trouble=Product |
| 3 | **help** | present | clubs and hobbies |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **change** | infinitive | clubs and hobbies *not said here* | habits |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Patient |

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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:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:25`.

**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. **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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