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title: You can be right about the fish and still lose a friend by shouting… — Friends who cling to a legend · tree and pragmatics
description: You can be right about the fish and still lose a friend by shouting "WRONG!" in front of the whole class. Who acts: You. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Friends who cling to a legend, sentence 3

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You can be right about the fish and still lose a friend by shouting "WRONG!" in front of the whole class.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** be, lose, shout · **To what, where:** friend, WRONG, front

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» 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 (You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:3
# text = You can be right about the fish and still lose a friend by shouting "WRONG!" in front of the whole class.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	WRONG	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | You |  |  |  |  | about the fish; right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | present | You *not said here* | a friend |  |  | still |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Eventuality |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | You *not said here* | WRONG |  | front of the whole class |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Topic |

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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:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:3`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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