How best friends start, sentence 27
You don't have to be good at something to make friends doing it; showing up and being yourself matters more.
Who acts: You, friends, showing · What happens: not have, be, make, do, show up, matter · To what, where: something, friends, way, yourself
This is a sentence of the lesson «How best friends start» of the everyday 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 (You, friends, showing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 good | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 good | cop |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 something | case |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 good | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 something | acl |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 friends | acl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 doing | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 showing | punct |
| 16 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 matters | csubj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 showing | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 being | cc |
| 19 | being | be | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 showing | conj |
| 20 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 being | obj |
| 21 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 matters | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · do-support | You | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | You not said here | something | good property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | You not said here | friends | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product | ||||
| 4 | do | gerund | friends not said here | way | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | show up | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | be | gerund | yourself | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yourself=Theme | |||||
| 7 | matter | present | showing | vn matter-91 «NP V»: 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, 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:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start.lesson:27.
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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