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title: Still a wasteman.» They nod in the corridor, and that's enough. — What a real friend is · tree and pragmatics
description: Still a wasteman.» They nod in the corridor, and that's enough. Who acts: Kieran, that. 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 8

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Still a wasteman.» They nod in the corridor, and that's enough.

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**Who acts:** Kieran, that · **What happens:** nod, be

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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, that), 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:8
# text = Still a wasteman.» They nod in the corridor, and that's enough.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wasteman	wasteman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
6	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	nod	nod	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	corridor	corridor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **nod** *in a quote* | present | Kieran |  |  |  |  | in the corridor | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in corridor=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | 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:8`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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