--- title: Loneliness can become a circle: three months into a new school, Zain… — When nobody sits with you: making friends again · tree and pragmatics description: Loneliness can become a circle: three months into a new school, Zainab still ate lunch alone most days, and at night she thought: "Back home I had loads of mates. Who acts: Loneliness, Zainab. 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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 (Loneliness, Zainab), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.lesson:0 # text = Loneliness can become a circle: three months into a new school, Zainab still ate lunch alone most days, and at night she thought: "Back home I had loads of mates. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Loneliness loneliness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 Zainab Zainab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 still still ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 17 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 alone alone ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 19 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 20 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 29 Back back ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 home home ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:parataxis 33 loads load NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 mates mate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | can | Loneliness | a circle and three months into a new school | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **eat** | past | Zainab | lunch | | | still; day | alone *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Zainab | | | | night | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Zainab | loads of mates | | | | home *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=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:023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Lonely and different: accents, big bro…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/19/) - next →: [When nobody sits with you: making frie…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/23-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/23-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again/)