--- title: Boys and girls can be just friends; teasing that a friend is your bo… — Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with s… · tree and pragmatics description: Boys and girls can be just friends; teasing that a friend is your boyfriend or girlfriend is not funny if it upsets you, and a parent can help. Who acts: friend, girlfriend, parent. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, girlfriend, parent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:19 # text = Boys and girls can be just friends; teasing that a friend is your boyfriend or girlfriend is not funny if it upsets you, and a parent can help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.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 Boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 6 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 9 teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 boyfriend boyfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 girlfriend girlfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 upsets upset VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **is a** | can | | friends | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tease** | gerund | | | | | | | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | a friend | your boyfriend or girlfriend | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | | | | | | funny *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **upset** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | girlfriend | you | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | | 6 | **help** | can | a parent | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:19`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Frustration, loneliness, guilt and liv…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/18/) - next →: [Frustration, loneliness, guilt and liv…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/)