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title: A year later they bump into each other in town and chat happily for… — The best friend who moves away · tree and pragmatics
description: A year later they bump into each other in town and chat happily for ten minutes. Who acts: friends. A sentence of the lesson «The best friend who moves away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The best friend who moves away, sentence 21

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A year later they bump into each other in town and chat happily for ten minutes.

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**Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** bump, chat · **To what, where:** each

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The best friend who moves away» 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 (friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away.lesson:21
# text = A year later they bump into each other in town and chat happily for ten minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bump	bump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	chat	chat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **bump** | present | friends *= friend* |  |  | each |  | in town; late *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into each=Location |
| 2 | **chat** *speech: other* | present | friends *= friend* *not said here* |  |  |  | minute | happily *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away.lesson:21`.

**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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