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title: A friend who is kind only in private, and mean when there's an audie… — Nice alone, mean in a group · tree and pragmatics
description: A friend who is kind only in private, and mean when there's an audience, is called a frenemy — half friend, half enemy. Who acts: friend, audience. 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 ev
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# Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 3

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A friend who is kind only in private, and mean when there's an audience, is called a frenemy — half friend, half enemy.

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**Who acts:** friend, audience · **What happens:** be, mean, call · **To what, where:** private, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (friend, audience), 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:3
# text = A friend who is kind only in private, and mean when there's an audience, is called a frenemy — half friend, half enemy.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	frenemy	frenemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
22	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	24	compound	_	_
24	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	27	amod	_	_
27	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **is** | present | a friend |  |  | private |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | infinitive | a friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | present | a audience |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  | a friend |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:3`.

**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): 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/).

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