--- title: Mia's best friend Ava starts going round with a crowd who say Mia's… — Growing apart · tree and pragmatics description: Mia's best friend Ava starts going round with a crowd who say Mia's pony stickers are «cringe» and «giving baby» — Gen Alpha talk for «looks babyish». Who acts: best friend, crowd, pony stickers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best friend, crowd, pony stickers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:464-growing-apart.lesson:16 # text = Mia's best friend Ava starts going round with a crowd who say Mia's pony stickers are «cringe» and «giving baby» — Gen Alpha talk for «looks babyish». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 464-growing-apart.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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos 5 Ava Ava PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 round round ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 pony pony NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 stickers sticker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 cringe cringe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:ccomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:acl:relcl 25 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ 27 — - PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 28 Gen Gen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 Alpha Alpha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 34 babyish babyish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | Mia's best friend | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **go round** | gerund | Mia's best friend *not said here* | | | | | with a crowd; round *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with crowd=Beneficiary | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a crowd | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Mia's pony stickers | | | | | cringe *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | gerund | Mia's pony stickers *not said here* | baby | | | | Gen talk *obl:unmarked* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | | 6 | **look** *in a quote* | present | Mia's pony stickers *not said here* | | | | | babyish *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:464-growing-apart.lesson:16`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Growing apart, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/15/) - next →: [Growing apart, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/)