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title: Testing friends with a trick can show who cares, but it is a bit sne… — Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Testing friends with a trick can show who cares, but it is a bit sneaky; noticing who stays works without tricks. Who acts: Testing friends, trick, noticing. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours, sentence 29

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Testing friends with a trick can show who cares, but it is a bit sneaky; noticing who stays works without tricks.

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**Who acts:** Testing friends, trick, noticing · **What happens:** show, care, be, notice, stay, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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 (Testing friends, trick, noticing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.lesson:29
# text = Testing friends with a trick can show who cares, but it is a bit sneaky; noticing who stays works without tricks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Testing	testing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cares	care	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	csubj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **show** | can | Testing friends with a trick |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **care** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | trick |  |  |  |  | a bit *obl:unmarked*; sneaky *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **notice** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **stay** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **work** | present | noticing |  |  |  |  | without tricks | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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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**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:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.lesson:29`.

**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): R7-rel-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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