--- title: Saying good things about a friend's family makes them proud. — Friends who get it · tree and pragmatics description: Saying good things about a friend's family makes them proud. Who acts: Saying. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who get it» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/525-friends-who-get-it/44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Friends who get it](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/525-friends-who-get-it/) / 44 # Friends who get it, sentence 44 Saying good things about a friend's family makes them proud. **Who acts:** Saying · **What happens:** say, make · **To what, where:** good things, Friends · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who get it» 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 (Saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:525-friends-who-get-it.lesson:44 # text = Saying good things about a friend's family makes them proud. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 525-friends-who-get-it.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 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | good things | | | | about a friend's family | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 2 | **make** | present | Saying | Friends *= friend* | | | | proud *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | 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. **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:525-friends-who-get-it.lesson:44`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Friends who get it, 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/525-friends-who-get-it/43/) - next →: [Friends who get it, 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/525-friends-who-get-it/45/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/525-friends-who-get-it/)