--- title: When friends whisper and stop as you walk over, the worried brain fi… — When nobody sits with you: making friends again · tree and pragmatics description: When friends whisper and stop as you walk over, the worried brain fills the gap with the worst story; sometimes, like for Ella, the whisper was a birthday surprise, so asking beats assuming. Who acts: friends, you, worried brain. 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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 (friends, you, worried brain), 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:6 # text = When friends whisper and stop as you walk over, the worried brain fills the gap with the worst story; sometimes, like for Ella, the whisper was a birthday surprise, so asking beats assuming. # 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 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 whisper whisper VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 over over ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 20 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 26 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 whisper whisper NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 nsubj _ _ 37 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 38 assuming assume VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | friends | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stop** | present | friends *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **walk over** | present | you | | | | | over *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fill** | present | the worried brain | the gap | | | | with the worst story | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gap=Patient with story=Instrument | | 5 | **is a** | past | | a birthday surprise | | | | like Ella | tree rules | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **beat** | present | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **assume** | gerund | | | | | | | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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. **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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