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title: Respecting an animal's space, like a growly dog's, is a kind of frie… — What a real friend is · tree and pragmatics
description: Respecting an animal's space, like a growly dog's, is a kind of friendship too. Who acts: Respecting. 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 36

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Respecting an animal's space, like a growly dog's, is a kind of friendship too.

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**Who acts:** Respecting · **What happens:** respect, be · **To what, where:** space, kind

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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 (Respecting), 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:36
# text = Respecting an animal's space, like a growly dog's, is a kind of friendship too.
# 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 ×1
1	Respecting	respect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	growly	growly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **respect** | gerund |  | a animal's space |  |  |  | like a growly dog | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer space=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Respecting | a kind |  |  |  | of friendship | tree rules |

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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:36`.

**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 ×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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