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title: And when Jake's own friends start calling Sam names, Jake, surprisin… — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Jake's own friends start calling Sam names, Jake, surprisingly, tells them to stop. Who acts: own friends, Jake. 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 14

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And when Jake's own friends start calling Sam names, Jake, surprisingly, tells them to stop.

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**Who acts:** own friends, Jake · **What happens:** start, call, tell, stop · **To what, where:** Sam names, friends · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (own friends, Jake), 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:14
# text = And when Jake's own friends start calling Sam names, Jake, surprisingly, tells them to stop.
# 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): R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
8	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod
9	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	surprisingly	surprisingly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **start** | present | Jake's own friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | Jake's own friends *not said here* | Sam names |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Jake |  | friends *= friend* |  |  | surprisingly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jake *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:14`.

**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 ×6, 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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