--- title: Knowing who isn't a friend matters too. — What a real friend is · tree and pragmatics description: Knowing who isn't a friend matters too. Who acts: Knowing. 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/4/) [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/) / 4 # What a real friend is, sentence 4 Knowing who isn't a friend matters too. **Who acts:** Knowing · **What happens:** know, not be, matter · **To what, where:** friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Knowing), 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:4 # text = Knowing who isn't a friend matters 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): no change 1 Knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 ccomp _ _ 7 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 too too ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | | a friend | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **matter** | present | Knowing | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:4`. **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/). - ← previous: [What a real friend is, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/3/) - next →: [What a real friend is, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/485-what-a-real-friend-is/)