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title: Different amounts of money can make a friendship awkward, but neithe… — Rich families: the big house, the nanny and neve… · tree and pragmatics
description: Different amounts of money can make a friendship awkward, but neither friend is to blame, and talking honestly helps. Who acts: Different amounts, friend, talking. A sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school 
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# Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 34

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Different amounts of money can make a friendship awkward, but neither friend is to blame, and talking honestly helps.

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**Who acts:** Different amounts, friend, talking · **What happens:** make, be, talk, help, amount · **To what, where:** friendship, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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 (Different amounts, friend, talking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:34
# text = Different amounts of money can make a friendship awkward, but neither friend is to blame, and talking honestly helps.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj
20	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **make** | can | Different amounts of money | a friendship |  |  |  | awkward *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friendship=Product |
| 2 | **is** | present | neither friend |  |  |  |  | blame *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | honestly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **help** | present | talking |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **amount** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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