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title: Turning new people away from a game is unkind and can mean missing o… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics
description: Turning new people away from a game is unkind and can mean missing out on a great friend. Who acts: Turning. A sentence of the lesson «The new kid and the first day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The new kid and the first day, sentence 33

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Turning new people away from a game is unkind and can mean missing out on a great friend.

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**Who acts:** Turning · **What happens:** turn away, be, mean, miss out · **To what, where:** new people, game

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The new kid and the first day» 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 (Turning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:33
# text = Turning new people away from a game is unkind and can mean missing out on a great friend.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn away** | gerund |  | new people |  | a game |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent people=Theme from game=Source |
| 2 | **is** | present | Turning |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | can | Turning *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **miss out** *not said to happen* | gerund | Turning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on a great friend | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:33`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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