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title: The first weeks she was nervous but hopeful; by month two she felt f… — When nobody sits with you: making friends again · tree and pragmatics
description: The first weeks she was nervous but hopeful; by month two she felt flat and tired and stopped trying to join in, and pulling back made her even more alone, so the circle turned again; hiding in the library every lunch meant nobody even saw she needed someone. Who acts: Loneliness, pulling, circle, n
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# When nobody sits with you: making friends again, sentence 3

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The first weeks she was nervous but hopeful; by month two she felt flat and tired and stopped trying to join in, and pulling back made her even more alone, so the circle turned again; hiding in the library every lunch meant nobody even saw she needed someone.

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**Who acts:** Loneliness, pulling, circle, nobody · **What happens:** be, feel, stop, try, join in, pull back · **To what, where:** Loneliness, lunch, library, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Loneliness, pulling, circle, nobody), 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:3
# text = The first weeks she was nervous but hopeful; by month two she felt flat and tired and stopped trying to join in, and pulling back made her even more alone, so the circle turned again; hiding in the library every lunch meant nobody even saw she needed someone.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hopeful	hopeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	csubj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod
32	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj
38	again	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
40	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	nsubj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det	_	_
45	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl:unmarked	_	_
46	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
47	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	49	nsubj	_	_
48	even	even	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	ccomp	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	ccomp	_	_
52	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	51	obj	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Loneliness |  |  |  | week | nervous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Loneliness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | past | Loneliness |  |  |  | month | flat *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stop** | past | Loneliness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **try** | gerund | Loneliness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **join in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Loneliness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **pull back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **make** | past | pulling | Loneliness |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
| 9 | **turn** | past | the circle |  |  |  | again |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **hide** | gerund |  | every lunch |  | the library |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in library=Location |
| 11 | **mean** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 12 | **see** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 13 | **need** | past | Loneliness | someone |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme |

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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:023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.lesson:3`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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