--- title: You can respect someone without being their friend. — What a real friend is · tree and pragmatics description: You can respect someone without being their friend. Who acts: You. A sentence of the lesson «What a real friend is» 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/485-what-a-real-friend-is/28/) [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/) / [What a real friend is](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/) / 28 # What a real friend is, sentence 28 You can respect someone without being their friend. **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** respect, be · **To what, where:** someone, friend This is a sentence of the lesson «What a real friend is» 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 (You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:485-what-a-real-friend-is.lesson:28 # text = You can respect someone without being their friend. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 485-what-a-real-friend-is.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 respect respect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 without without SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 being be AUX VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 cop _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 9 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **respect** | can | You | someone | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | gerund | You *not said here* | people's friend | | | | | 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:485-what-a-real-friend-is.lesson:28`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What a real friend is, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/27/) - next →: [What a real friend is, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/)