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title: When Maddie gives Lily half a «best friend» necklace, Chloe's face d… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics
description: When Maddie gives Lily half a «best friend» necklace, Chloe's face drops; so the three of them make friendship bracelets instead. Who acts: Maddie, face, three. A sentence of the lesson «How best friends start» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# How best friends start, sentence 22

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When Maddie gives Lily half a «best friend» necklace, Chloe's face drops; so the three of them make friendship bracelets instead.

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**Who acts:** Maddie, face, three · **What happens:** give, drop, make · **To what, where:** «, Lily, friendship bracelets

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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, face, three), 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:22
# text = When Maddie gives Lily half a «best friend» necklace, Chloe's face drops; so the three of them make friendship bracelets instead.
# 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det:predet
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
7	«	«	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
11	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound
16	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
24	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **give** | present | Maddie | « | Lily |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lily=Recipient necklace=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | present | Chloe's face |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present | the three of Maddie | friendship bracelets |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bracelet=Product |

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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:461-how-best-friends-start.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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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