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title: When Lily's usual friends fall out and leave her alone, Sam sits wit… — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics
description: When Lily's usual friends fall out and leave her alone, Sam sits with her at lunch. Who acts: usual friends, Sam. A sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Standing by a friend, sentence 11

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When Lily's usual friends fall out and leave her alone, Sam sits with her at lunch.

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**Who acts:** usual friends, Sam · **What happens:** fall out, leave, sit · **To what, where:** Lily, lunch

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» 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 (usual friends, Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:11
# text = When Lily's usual friends fall out and leave her alone, Sam sits with her at lunch.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 370-standing-by-a-friend.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **fall out** | present | Lily's usual friends |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | present | Lily's usual friends *not said here* | Lily |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | present | Sam |  |  | lunch |  | with Lily | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at lunch=Location |

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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:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:11`.

**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): 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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