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title: A good friend is kind and honest, shares, keeps promises, sticks up… — Friends, teams and fair play · tree and pragmatics
description: A good friend is kind and honest, shares, keeps promises, sticks up for you, and says sorry after a mistake; friendship works both ways, so you try to be that kind of friend too. Who acts: good friend, friendship, you. A sentence of the lesson «Friends, teams and fair play» of the everyday course of
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# Friends, teams and fair play, sentence 0

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A good friend is kind and honest, shares, keeps promises, sticks up for you, and says sorry after a mistake; friendship works both ways, so you try to be that kind of friend too.

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**Who acts:** good friend, friendship, you · **What happens:** be, share, keep, stick up, say, work · **To what, where:** promises, ways, kind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends, teams and fair play» 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 (good friend, friendship, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.lesson:0
# text = A good friend is kind and honest, shares, keeps promises, sticks up for you, and says sorry after a mistake; friendship works both ways, so you try to be that kind of friend too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	shares	share	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sticks	stick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
28	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
36	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	xcomp	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	too	too	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a good friend |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a good friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **share** | present | a good friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | present | a good friend *not said here* | promises |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 5 | **stick up** | present | a good friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for you | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: apologize* | present | a good friend *not said here* |  |  |  | after a mistake | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **work** | present | friendship | both ways |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **try** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | that kind |  |  |  | of 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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**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:052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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