--- title: Five years later they still call it «beanbag day» and share a biscui… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics description: Five years later they still call it «beanbag day» and share a biscuit on its anniversary. Who acts: Maddie. A sentence of the lesson «How best friends start» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [How best friends start](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/) / 2 # How best friends start, sentence 2 Five years later they still call it «beanbag day» and share a biscuit on its anniversary. **Who acts:** Maddie · **What happens:** call, share · **To what, where:** teacher, biscuit, anniversary · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «How best friends start» 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 (Maddie), 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:2 # text = Five years later they still call it «beanbag day» and share a biscuit on its anniversary. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked 3 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 beanbag beanbag NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 biscuit biscuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 anniversary anniversary NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | Maddie | teacher | | | still | late *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 2 | **share** | present | Maddie *not said here* | a biscuit | | teacher's anniversary | | | tree rules | 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:2`. **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 ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How best friends start, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/0/) - next →: [How best friends start, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/)