--- title: Old friends often bring back the way you talked and acted when you w… — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work · tree and pragmatics description: Old friends often bring back the way you talked and acted when you were young. Who acts: Old friends, you. 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/36/) [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/) / 36 # Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work, sentence 36 Old friends often bring back the way you talked and acted when you were young. **Who acts:** Old friends, you · **What happens:** bring back, talk, act, be · **To what, where:** way 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 (Old friends, you), 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:36 # text = Old friends often bring back the way you talked and acted when you were young. # 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): no change 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 acted act VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring back** | present | Old friends | the way | | | | often *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 2 | **talk** | past | you | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent way=Patient | | 3 | **act** | past | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | you | | | | | young *property* | tree rules | 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:36`. **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/). - ← previous: [Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from…, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/34/) - next →: [Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from…, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/37/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/)