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title: Finding the same daft things funny is a common way friendships begin. — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics
description: Finding the same daft things funny is a common way friendships begin. Who acts: Finding, friendships. 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.
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# How best friends start, sentence 26

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Finding the same daft things funny is a common way friendships begin.

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**Who acts:** Finding, friendships · **What happens:** find, be, begin · **To what, where:** same daft things, common way

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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 (Finding, friendships), 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:26
# text = Finding the same daft things funny is a common way friendships begin.
# 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): no change
1	Finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	daft	daft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	friendships	friendship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **find** | gerund |  | the same daft things |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Finding | a common way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | present | friendships | a common way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |

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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:26`.

**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): no change. **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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