--- title: When a friend spends time with someone new, you cannot force them ba… — Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someon… · tree and pragmatics description: When a friend spends time with someone new, you cannot force them back; doing your own things and leaving the door open helps. Who acts: friend, you. 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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 (friend, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.lesson:24 # text = When a friend spends time with someone new, you cannot force them back; doing your own things and leaving the door open helps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.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 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spends spend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 8 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 force force VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 nsubj _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 26 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | present | a friend | | | | time | with someone | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **force back** | can | you | people | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 3 | **do** | gerund | | your own things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 4 | **leave** | gerund | | the door | | | | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | | 5 | **help** | present | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.lesson:24`. **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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