--- title: Maddie and Lily became best friends on the first day of Reception, b… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics description: Maddie and Lily became best friends on the first day of Reception, because they both cried and the teacher sat them on the same squashy beanbag. Who acts: Maddie, teacher. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maddie, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start.lesson:0 # text = Maddie and Lily became best friends on the first day of Reception, because they both cried and the teacher sat them on the same squashy beanbag. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 461-how-best-friends-start.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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 3 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 xcomp _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Reception reception NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 both both ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 squashy squashy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 beanbag beanbag NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Maddie and Lily | best friends | | | day | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Maddie | | | | | both *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sit** | past | the teacher | Maddie | | the same squashy beanbag | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on beanbag=Location | 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. **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:461-how-best-friends-start.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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/). - ← previous: [The pet that loves you most, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most/35/) - next →: [How best friends start, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/)