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title: Distance doesn't end a real friendship; small rituals and regular ca… — What a real friend is · tree and pragmatics
description: Distance doesn't end a real friendship; small rituals and regular calls keep it alive. Who acts: Distance, small rituals. 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.
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# What a real friend is, sentence 33

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Distance doesn't end a real friendship; small rituals and regular calls keep it alive.

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**Who acts:** Distance, small rituals · **What happens:** not end, keep · **To what, where:** real friendship, Distance

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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 (Distance, small rituals), 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:33
# text = Distance doesn't end a real friendship; small rituals and regular calls keep it alive.
# 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): no change
1	Distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rituals	ritual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **end** | present · do-support | Distance | a real friendship |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality friendship=Eventuality |
| 2 | **keep** | present | small rituals and regular calls | Distance |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:485-what-a-real-friend-is.lesson:33`.

**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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