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title: Real friends don't expect you to pay for them; you can say no, and a… — Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real friends don't expect you to pay for them; you can say no, and anyone who leaves wasn't a real friend. Who acts: Real friends, you, anyone. 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 dependency tre
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# Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours, sentence 30

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Real friends don't expect you to pay for them; you can say no, and anyone who leaves wasn't a real friend.

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**Who acts:** Real friends, you, anyone · **What happens:** not expect, pay, say, leave, not be · **To what, where:** you, real friend · **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 (Real friends, you, anyone), 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:30
# text = Real friends don't expect you to pay for them; you can say no, and anyone who leaves wasn't a real friend.
# 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): no change
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	14	discourse	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
26	.	.	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** **expect** | present · do-support | Real friends | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for friends *= friend* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **leave** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | past | anyone | a real friend |  |  |  |  | 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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**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.

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