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title: Kieran still doesn't like Jake, but he's seen him stand up for Sam a… — What a real friend is · tree and pragmatics
description: Kieran still doesn't like Jake, but he's seen him stand up for Sam and give back a ball that wasn't his: «He's alright, I s'pose. Who acts: Kieran, Jake, Bella, ball. 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 pra
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# What a real friend is, sentence 7

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Kieran still doesn't like Jake, but he's seen him stand up for Sam and give back a ball that wasn't his: «He's alright, I s'pose.

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**Who acts:** Kieran, Jake, Bella, ball, Lily · **What happens:** not like, see, stand up, give back, not be, be · **To what, where:** Jake, Bella, ball · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Kieran, Jake, Bella, ball), 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:7
# text = Kieran still doesn't like Jake, but he's seen him stand up for Sam and give back a ball that wasn't his: «He's alright, I s'pose.
# 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	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	's	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
28	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	alright	alright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	s'pose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** **like** | present · do-support | Kieran | Jake |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present · perfect | Jake | Bella |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand up** | infinitive | Bella *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Sam | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give back** | infinitive | Bella *not said here* | a ball |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | past | a ball | Bella |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Bella |  |  |  |  | alright *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **suppose** *in a quote* | present | Lily |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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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