--- title: You don't have to be good at something to make friends doing it; sho… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics description: You don't have to be good at something to make friends doing it; showing up and being yourself matters more. Who acts: You, friends, showing. 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/27/) [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/) / 27 # How best friends start, sentence 27 You don't have to be good at something to make friends doing it; showing up and being yourself matters more. **Who acts:** You, friends, showing · **What happens:** not have, be, make, do, show up, matter · **To what, where:** something, friends, way, yourself 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 (You, friends, showing), 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:27 # text = You don't have to be good at something to make friends doing it; showing up and being yourself matters more. # 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 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 csubj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 being be VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 20 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 obj _ _ 21 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | You | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | | | something | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | friends | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product | | 4 | **do** | gerund | friends *not said here* | way | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 5 | **show up** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **be** | gerund | | yourself | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yourself=Theme | | 7 | **matter** | present | showing | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:27`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How best friends start, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/26/) - next →: [How best friends start, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/)