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title: Inside jokes and secret handshakes help friends feel close, but save… — Sleepovers and inside jokes · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside jokes and secret handshakes help friends feel close, but save them for times they won't get you into trouble. Who acts: jokes, friends. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Sleepovers and inside jokes, sentence 31

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Inside jokes and secret handshakes help friends feel close, but save them for times they won't get you into trouble.

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**Who acts:** jokes, friends · **What happens:** help, feel, save, not get · **To what, where:** friends, you, trouble

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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 (jokes, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:31
# text = Inside jokes and secret handshakes help friends feel close, but save them for times they won't get you into trouble.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	handshakes	handshake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
9	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **help** | present | jokes and secret handshakes |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive | friends |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | jokes and secret handshakes *not said here* | friends *= friend* |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **get** | future | friends *= friend* | you |  | trouble |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.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): R7-rel-agree ×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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