--- title: Inviting someone first is a kind, brave act, and many friendships st… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics description: Inviting someone first is a kind, brave act, and many friendships start because one person asks. Who acts: Inviting, many friendships, one person. 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 cl --- [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/29/) [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/) / 29 # How best friends start, sentence 29 Inviting someone first is a kind, brave act, and many friendships start because one person asks. **Who acts:** Inviting, many friendships, one person · **What happens:** invite, be, start, ask · **To what, where:** someone, kind brave act 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 (Inviting, many friendships, one person), 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:29 # text = Inviting someone first is a kind, brave act, and many friendships start because one person asks. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Inviting invite VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 6 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 act act NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 friendships friendship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invite** | gerund | | | someone | | | first *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | present | Inviting | a kind brave act | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **start** | present | many friendships | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | one person | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:29`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/28/) - next →: [How best friends start, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/)