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title: When a best friend moves away, it leaves a gap; new friends usually… — When nobody sits with you: making friends again · tree and pragmatics
description: When a best friend moves away, it leaves a gap; new friends usually fill it slowly, often through group games and clubs. Who acts: best friend, carer, new friends. A sentence of the lesson «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# When nobody sits with you: making friends again, sentence 18

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When a best friend moves away, it leaves a gap; new friends usually fill it slowly, often through group games and clubs.

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**Who acts:** best friend, carer, new friends · **What happens:** move away, leave, fill · **To what, where:** gap, carer, group games

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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 (best friend, carer, new friends), 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:18
# text = When a best friend moves away, it leaves a gap; new friends usually fill it slowly, often through group games and clubs.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fill	fill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
25	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move away** | present | a best friend |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | present | carer | a gap |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Theme |
| 3 | **fill** | present | new friends | carer |  | group games and clubs |  | slowly, usually *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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