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title: Helping a friend at your own cost, like lending your kit, is kindnes… — Covering for a friend · tree and pragmatics
description: Helping a friend at your own cost, like lending your kit, is kindness, not lying. Who acts: Helping, your. A sentence of the lesson «Covering for 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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# Covering for a friend, sentence 35

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Helping a friend at your own cost, like lending your kit, is kindness, not lying.

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**Who acts:** Helping, your · **What happens:** help, lend, be, not lie, cost · **To what, where:** friend, own cost, kit, kindness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering for 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 (Helping, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:35
# text = Helping a friend at your own cost, like lending your kit, is kindness, not lying.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 436-covering-for-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 ×1
1	Helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	lending	lend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	kit	kit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **help** | gerund |  |  | a friend | your own cost |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **lend** | gerund |  | your kit |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kit=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Helping | kindness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **lie** | gerund | Helping *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cost** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom cost «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R7-rel-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.

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