--- title: Showing a best friend you care should not make others feel shut out. — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics description: Showing a best friend you care should not make others feel shut out. Who acts: you, Showing, others. 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/31/) [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/) / 31 # How best friends start, sentence 31 Showing a best friend you care should not make others feel shut out. **Who acts:** you, Showing, others · **What happens:** show, care, not make, not feel, shut out · **To what, where:** best friend 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, Showing, others), 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:31 # text = Showing a best friend you care should not make others feel shut out. # 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 Showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 care care VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 xcomp _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | gerund | | | a best friend | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | | 2 | **care** | present | you | a best friend *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **make** | should | Showing | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **feel** | infinitive | others | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **shut out** | participle | others *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:31`. **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, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/30/) - next →: [How best friends start, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/33/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/)