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title: Big gifts can make others feel they owe you; small or equal gifts ke… — Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Big gifts can make others feel they owe you; small or equal gifts keep things comfortable. Who acts: Big gifts, others, gifts, small gifts. 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 tree an
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# Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours, sentence 36

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Big gifts can make others feel they owe you; small or equal gifts keep things comfortable.

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**Who acts:** Big gifts, others, gifts, small gifts · **What happens:** make, feel, owe, keep · **To what, where:** others, you, things

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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 (Big gifts, others, gifts, small gifts), 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:36
# text = Big gifts can make others feel they owe you; small or equal gifts keep things comfortable.
# 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	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	owe	owe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can | Big gifts | others |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **owe** | present | gifts *= gift* | you |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | present | small gifts | things |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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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:36`.

**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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