---
title: A thank-you and being a good mate is enough, and next time Jamal can… — Hiding it from friends: being skint at school · tree and pragmatics
description: A thank-you and being a good mate is enough, and next time Jamal can pay back with a favour, a drawing or a laugh. Who acts: Jamal. A sentence of the lesson «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school/31/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Hiding it from friends: being skint at…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school/) / 31

# Hiding it from friends: being skint at school, sentence 31

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A thank-you and being a good mate is enough, and next time Jamal can pay back with a favour, a drawing or a laugh.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Jamal · **What happens:** be, pay back · **To what, where:** good mate

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» 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 (Jamal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:31
# text = A thank-you and being a good mate is enough, and next time Jamal can pay back with a favour, a drawing or a laugh.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thank	thank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	root	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	Jamal	Jamal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund |  | a good mate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay back** | can | Jamal |  |  |  | time | with a favour and a drawing and a laugh | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:31`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Hiding it from friends: being skint at…, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school/30/)
- next →: [Hiding it from friends: being skint at…, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school/32/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school/)

