--- title: Starting a club can help everyone find friends, especially quiet chi… — Friends through games and clubs · tree and pragmatics description: Starting a club can help everyone find friends, especially quiet children who are rarely asked. Who acts: Starting, everyone. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Friends through games and clubs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/) / 32 # Friends through games and clubs, sentence 32 Starting a club can help everyone find friends, especially quiet children who are rarely asked. **Who acts:** Starting, everyone · **What happens:** start, help, find, ask · **To what, where:** club, friends, quiet children 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 (Starting, everyone), 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:32 # text = Starting a club can help everyone find friends, especially quiet children who are rarely asked. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Starting start VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 7 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 especially especially ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 11 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 15 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | gerund | | a club | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Eventuality | | 2 | **help** | can | Starting | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **find** | infinitive | everyone | friends | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive | | quiet children | | | | rarely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.lesson:32`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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: [Friends through games and clubs, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/31/) - next →: [Friends through games and clubs, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/33/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/)