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title: Being new is lonely, and nobody has to be mean for it to hurt. — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics
description: Being new is lonely, and nobody has to be mean for it to hurt. Who acts: nobody, invite. 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 7

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Being new is lonely, and nobody has to be mean for it to hurt.

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**Who acts:** nobody, invite · **What happens:** be, have, hurt

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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 (nobody, invite), 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:7
# text = Being new is lonely, and nobody has to be mean for it to hurt.
# 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): no change
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	csubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | lonely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mean *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hurt** | to-infinitive | invite |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:7`.

**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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