--- title: Spending time close together sometimes turns enemies into friends; i… — Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did · tree and pragmatics description: Spending time close together sometimes turns enemies into friends; it is worth giving it time before deciding. Who acts: Spending, giving, time. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did/27/) [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/) / [Enemies who became friends, and ones w…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did/) / 27 # Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did, sentence 27 Spending time close together sometimes turns enemies into friends; it is worth giving it time before deciding. **Who acts:** Spending, giving, time · **What happens:** spend, close, turn, be, give, decide · **To what, where:** enemies, skill 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 (Spending, giving, time), 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:27 # text = Spending time close together sometimes turns enemies into friends; it is worth giving it time before deciding. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Spending spend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 close close VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 together together ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 6 advmod _ _ 6 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 14 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advcl 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 before before SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 deciding decide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | gerund | | | | | time | together *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Goal | | 2 | **close** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **turn** | present | Spending | enemies | | | | into friends *result*; sometimes *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme into friend=Result | | 4 | **is** | present | giving | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | gerund | | skill | | | time | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **decide** | gerund | time *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: 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:484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did.lesson:27`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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