--- title: And when your friend clings to his story, you don't need to win; say… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics description: And when your friend clings to his story, you don't need to win; say what is real in it, then offer to test it together. Who acts: friend, you. A sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/9/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Water, deserts and the shape of the land](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/) / 9 # Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 9 And when your friend clings to his story, you don't need to win; say what is real in it, then offer to test it together. **Who acts:** friend, you · **What happens:** cling, not need, win, say, be, offer · **To what, where:** story · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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 (friend, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:9 # text = And when your friend clings to his story, you don't need to win; say what is real in it, then offer to test it together. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 clings cling VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 17 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 test test VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 together together ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cling** | present | your friend | | | | | to friend's story | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to story=Co-Theme | | 2 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **win** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | story | | real *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **offer** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | then | | tree rules | | 7 | **test** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | story | | | | together *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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