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title: Lily's friend Grace is nice one-to-one, but when Maddie's around Gra… — Nice alone, mean in a group · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily's friend Grace is nice one-to-one, but when Maddie's around Grace whispers and they both giggle and look at Lily. Who acts: Grace, kids. A sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 14

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Lily's friend Grace is nice one-to-one, but when Maddie's around Grace whispers and they both giggle and look at Lily.

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**Who acts:** Grace, kids · **What happens:** be, whisper, giggle, look · **To what, where:** nice one, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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 (Grace, kids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.lesson:14
# text = Lily's friend Grace is nice one-to-one, but when Maddie's around Grace whispers and they both giggle and look at Lily.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	around	around	ADP	IN	_	19	advcl	_	_
18	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	whispers	whisper	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	giggle	giggle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | nice one | one |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | Grace |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **giggle** | present | kids *= kid* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | present | kids *= kid* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Lily | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lily=Theme |

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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:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.lesson:14`.

**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, 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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