--- title: Seeing photos of an old friend having fun without you can sting; rea… — Growing apart · tree and pragmatics description: Seeing photos of an old friend having fun without you can sting; reaching out or letting go both work better than staring at the photos. Who acts: old friend. 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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 (old 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:43 # text = Seeing photos of an old friend having fun without you can sting; reaching out or letting go both work better than staring at the photos. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 nsubj _ _ 2 photos photo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 without without ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 reaching reach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 nsubj _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 18 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 19 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 20 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:det 20 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 22 than than SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 photos photo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | | photos of a old friend | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer photo=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | gerund | a old friend *not said here* | fun | | | | without you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient | | 3 | **sting** | can | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **reach out** | gerund | | | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **let** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **work** | present | | | | | | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **stare** | gerund | | | | | | at the photos | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at photo=Theme | 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:43`. **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): R7-rel-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, 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/42/) - next →: [Growing apart, 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/44/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/)