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title: Some friendships last a lifetime, kept alive by lots of small calls… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics
description: Some friendships last a lifetime, kept alive by lots of small calls and visits over years. Who acts: 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 33

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Some friendships last a lifetime, kept alive by lots of small calls and visits over years.

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**Who acts:** friendships · **What happens:** last, keep · **To what, where:** lifetime

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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 (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:33
# text = Some friendships last a lifetime, kept alive by lots of small calls and visits over years.
# 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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	friendships	friendship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	last	last	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl
8	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | some friendships | a lifetime |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lifetime=Value |
| 2 | **keep** | participle | some friendships *not said here* |  |  |  | year | by lots of small calls and visits; alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by lot=Location |

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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:33`.

**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. **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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