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title: Friends sometimes grow apart because they start liking different thi… — Growing apart · tree and pragmatics
description: Friends sometimes grow apart because they start liking different things, and often nobody is to blame. Who acts: Friends, mates, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Growing apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Growing apart, sentence 36

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Friends sometimes grow apart because they start liking different things, and often nobody is to blame.

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**Who acts:** Friends, mates, nobody · **What happens:** grow apart, start, like, be · **To what, where:** different things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing apart» 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, mates, nobody), 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:36
# text = Friends sometimes grow apart because they start liking different things, and often nobody is to blame.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	liking	like	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow apart** | present | Friends |  |  |  |  | apart, sometimes *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | present | mates *= mate* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **like** | gerund | mates *= mate* *not said here* | different things |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  | blame, often *property* | tree rules |

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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:464-growing-apart.lesson:36`.

**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): 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/).

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