--- title: Asking a friend directly whether they were laughing at you can bring… — Nice alone, mean in a group · tree and pragmatics description: Asking a friend directly whether they were laughing at you can bring out the truth, because sometimes a friend is being used against you. Who acts: ups, Asking. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ups, Asking), 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:30 # text = Asking a friend directly whether they were laughing at you can bring out the truth, because sometimes a friend is being used against you. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 iobj _ _ 4 directly directly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 ccomp _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 18 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 23 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 24 against against ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | a friend | | | directly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **laugh** | past · progressive | ups *= up* | | | | | at you | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bring out** | can | Asking | the truth | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent truth=Patient | | 4 | **use** | present · passive | | a friend | | | | against you; sometimes *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.lesson:30`. **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: [Nice alone, mean in a group, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/29/) - next →: [Nice alone, mean in a group, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/31/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/)