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title: After a long time away, friendships may have shifted; joining back i… — Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and… · tree and pragmatics
description: After a long time away, friendships may have shifted; joining back in slowly and inviting people round helps more than being cross. Who acts: friendships, joining. A sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» of the reflection course of Mova's primary sch
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# Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 16

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After a long time away, friendships may have shifted; joining back in slowly and inviting people round helps more than being cross.

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**Who acts:** friendships, joining · **What happens:** shift, join, invite, help, be · **To what, where:** people, more

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» of the reflection 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 (friendships, joining), 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:16
# text = After a long time away, friendships may have shifted; joining back in slowly and inviting people round helps more than being cross.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×4
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	friendships	friendship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	shifted	shift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	joining	join	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
24	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **shift** | may · perfect | friendships |  |  |  | time |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **join** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **invite** | gerund |  |  | people |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 4 | **help** | present | joining | more |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | cross *property* | tree rules |

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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:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:16`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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