--- title: A one-way friend only takes, like borrowing and never paying back; i… — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work · tree and pragmatics description: A one-way friend only takes, like borrowing and never paying back; it is fine to stop giving. Who acts: way friend. A sentence of the lesson «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/33/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/) / 33 # Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work, sentence 33 A one-way friend only takes, like borrowing and never paying back; it is fine to stop giving. **Who acts:** way friend · **What happens:** take, borrow, not pay back, be, stop, give This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» 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 (way friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:33 # text = A one-way friend only takes, like borrowing and never paying back; it is fine to stop giving. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 borrowing borrow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 csubj _ _ 21 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | a way friend | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **borrow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **pay back** | gerund | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **give** | gerund | | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:33`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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