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title: Some people keep being unkind; you can stay polite but keep your dis… — Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did · tree and pragmatics
description: Some people keep being unkind; you can stay polite but keep your distance and your secrets. Who acts: people, you. 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 clause
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# Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did, sentence 31

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Some people keep being unkind; you can stay polite but keep your distance and your secrets.

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**Who acts:** people, you · **What happens:** keep, be, stay · **To what, where:** distance

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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 (people, you), 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:31
# text = Some people keep being unkind; you can stay polite but keep your distance and your secrets.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
10	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | some people |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | some people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay** | can | you |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your distance and your secrets |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=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:31`.

**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/).

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