--- title: People can have more than one best friend; a new friend does not can… — Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and… · tree and pragmatics description: People can have more than one best friend; a new friend does not cancel an old friendship. Who acts: People, new friend. A sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/18/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Lonely and different: accents, big bro…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/) / 18 # Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 18 People can have more than one best friend; a new friend does not cancel an old friendship. **Who acts:** People, new friend · **What happens:** have, not cancel · **To what, where:** one best friend, old friendship 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 (People, new friend), 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:18 # text = People can have more than one best friend; a new friend does not cancel an old friendship. # 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 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 6 advmod _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 4 fixed _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 cancel cancel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 . . 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 | **have** | can | People | one best friend | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | | 2 | **not** **cancel** | present · do-support | a new friend | a old friendship | | | | | tree rules | 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:18`. **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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