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title: Joining something you love is a good way to find people who love the… — Friends through games and clubs · tree and pragmatics
description: Joining something you love is a good way to find people who love the same thing. Who acts: you, Joining, people. A sentence of the lesson «Friends through games and clubs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Friends through games and clubs, sentence 31

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Joining something you love is a good way to find people who love the same thing.

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**Who acts:** you, Joining, people · **What happens:** join, love, be, find · **To what, where:** something, good way, people, same thing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends through games and clubs» 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 (you, Joining, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.lesson:31
# text = Joining something you love is a good way to find people who love the same thing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.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	Joining	join	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **join** | gerund |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 2 | **love** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Joining | a good way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | people |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
| 5 | **love** | present | people | the same thing |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=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:467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.lesson:31`.

**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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