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title: Letters and parcels are slow, but they can keep a friendship going f… — The best friend who moves away · tree and pragmatics
description: Letters and parcels are slow, but they can keep a friendship going for years. Who acts: Letters, friendship. 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 32

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Letters and parcels are slow, but they can keep a friendship going for years.

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**Who acts:** Letters, friendship · **What happens:** be, keep, go · **To what, where:** friendship

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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 (Letters, friendship), 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:32
# text = Letters and parcels are slow, but they can keep a friendship going for years.
# 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 ×1
1	Letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	parcels	parcel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Letters and parcels |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | can | letters *= letter* | a friendship |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | a friendship *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:32`.

**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 ×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/).

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