--- title: New players often need time before a team trusts them; "like a lemon… — When nobody sits with you: making friends again · tree and pragmatics description: New players often need time before a team trusts them; "like a lemon" is UK slang for looking silly or useless. Who acts: New players, team, lemon. A sentence of the lesson «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/23-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again/13/) [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/) / [When nobody sits with you: making frie…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/23-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again/) / 13 # When nobody sits with you: making friends again, sentence 13 New players often need time before a team trusts them; "like a lemon" is UK slang for looking silly or useless. **Who acts:** New players, team, lemon · **What happens:** need, trust, be, look · **To what, where:** players, UK slang This is a sentence of the lesson «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» 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 (New players, team, lemon), 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:13 # text = New players often need time before a team trusts them; "like a lemon" is UK slang for looking silly or useless. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 New new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 trusts trust VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 discourse _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lemon lemon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 22 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | New players | | | | time | often *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **trust** | present | a team | players *= player* | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | a lemon | UK slang | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | gerund | a lemon *not said here* | | | | | silly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:13`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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. 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