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title: Simply staying with someone who has been hurt, until an adult takes… — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics
description: Simply staying with someone who has been hurt, until an adult takes over, is a real help. Who acts: adult, staying. 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 22

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Simply staying with someone who has been hurt, until an adult takes over, is a real help.

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**Who acts:** adult, staying · **What happens:** stay, hurt, take over, be · **To what, where:** real help

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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 (adult, staying), 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:22
# text = Simply staying with someone who has been hurt, until an adult takes over, is a real help.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advcl
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **stay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with someone; simply *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with someone=Location |
| 2 | **hurt** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **take over** | present | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | staying | a real help |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:22`.

**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): 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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