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title: When a friendship feels wrong because of a real problem, talking abo… — Growing apart · tree and pragmatics
description: When a friendship feels wrong because of a real problem, talking about it calmly can fix it, while silence lets it drift. Who acts: friendship, talking, silence, friend. A sentence of the lesson «Growing apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Growing apart, sentence 41

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When a friendship feels wrong because of a real problem, talking about it calmly can fix it, while silence lets it drift.

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**Who acts:** friendship, talking, silence, friend · **What happens:** feel, talk, fix, let, drift · **To what, where:** friend

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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 (friendship, talking, silence, friend), 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:41
# text = When a friendship feels wrong because of a real problem, talking about it calmly can fix it, while silence lets it drift.
# 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): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	drift	drift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | a friendship |  |  |  |  | because a real problem; wrong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about problem; calmly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 3 | **fix** | can | talking | friend |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **let** | present | silence |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drift** | infinitive | friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:464-growing-apart.lesson:41`.

**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): no change. **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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