--- title: Saying no to a one-way friend can feel lonely at first, but it leave… — The friend who only calls when they need something · tree and pragmatics description: Saying no to a one-way friend can feel lonely at first, but it leaves room for friends who give back. Who acts: Saying, kindness, friends. 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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 (Saying, kindness, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something.lesson:47 # text = Saying no to a one-way friend can feel lonely at first, but it leaves room for friends who give back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something.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 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ _ 2 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 1 obj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 back back ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | no | a way friend | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to friend=Recipient | | 2 | **feel** | can | Saying | | | | | lonely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **leave** | present | kindness | room | | | | for friends | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent room=Theme for friend=Recipient | | 4 | **give back** | present | friends | | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | 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:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something.lesson:47`. **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. **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. 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