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description: They agree, without saying so, to stay out of each other's way: no fights, no friendship, just a nod. Who acts: Kieran. A sentence of the lesson «Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did, sentence 15

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They agree, without saying so, to stay out of each other's way: no fights, no friendship, just a nod.

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**Who acts:** Kieran · **What happens:** agree, say, stay out · **To what, where:** other way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did» 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 (Kieran), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did.lesson:15
# text = They agree, without saying so, to stay out of each other's way: no fights, no friendship, just a nod.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did.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	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nod	nod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Kieran |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Kieran *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stay out** | to-infinitive | Kieran *not said here* | each other way and no fights and no friendship and a nod |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did.lesson:15`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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