--- title: Some people prefer quiet friends and some like loud ones; real frien… — Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and… · tree and pragmatics description: Some people prefer quiet friends and some like loud ones; real friends like you as you are, and you don't have to switch yourself off. Who acts: people, some, you. 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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 (people, some, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:12 # text = Some people prefer quiet friends and some like loud ones; real friends like you as you are, and you don't have to switch yourself off. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 prefer prefer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 some some PRON DT PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 8 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 switch switch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prefer** | present | some people | quiet friends and real friends like you | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus | | 2 | **like** | present | some | loud ones | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | | 3 | **does** | present | you | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **switch off** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | 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:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:12`. **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. 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