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title: Grown-ups have frenemies too; spotting one is a skill for life. — Nice alone, mean in a group · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups have frenemies too; spotting one is a skill for life. Who acts: Grown ups, spotting. 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 clause.
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# Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 34

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Grown-ups have frenemies too; spotting one is a skill for life.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, spotting · **What happens:** grow, have, spot, be · **To what, where:** frenemies, one, skill

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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 (Grown ups, spotting), 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:34
# text = Grown-ups have frenemies too; spotting one is a skill for life.
# 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): no change
1	Grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	frenemies	frenemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	spotting	spot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | Grown ups | frenemies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frenemy=Patient |
| 3 | **spot** | gerund |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | present | spotting | a skill |  |  |  | for life | tree rules |

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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:34`.

**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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