--- title: Feeling lonely at a new school does not mean you are unlikeable; fri… — When nobody sits with you: making friends again · tree and pragmatics description: Feeling lonely at a new school does not mean you are unlikeable; friendships need time and places to grow. Who acts: Feeling, you, friendships. 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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 (Feeling, you, friendships), 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:8 # text = Feeling lonely at a new school does not mean you are unlikeable; friendships need time and places to grow. # 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): no change 1 Feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 unlikeable unlikeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 friendships friendship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | gerund | | | | a new school | | lonely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Feeling | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | you | | | | | unlikeable *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **need** | present | friendships | | | | time | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **grow** | to-infinitive | friendships *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:8`. **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): no change. **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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