--- title: At a party, nobody is watching you as closely as you think; the uncl… — Dances of the world and dancing at parties · tree and pragmatics description: At a party, nobody is watching you as closely as you think; the uncle doing dad dancing, all elbows and pointing, is usually having the best time in the room. Who acts: nobody, you, uncle. 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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 (nobody, you, uncle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:3 # text = At a party, nobody is watching you as closely as you think; the uncle doing dad dancing, all elbows and pointing, is usually having the best time in the room. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.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 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 as as ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 closely closely ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 17 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 dancing dancing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 elbows elbow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 pointing pointing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 usually usually ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | present · progressive | nobody | you | | a party | | closely *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** | gerund | the uncle all elbows and pointing *not said here* | dad dancing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancing=Eventuality | | 4 | **have** | present · progressive | the uncle all elbows and pointing | | | the room | time | usually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «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:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dances of the world and dancing at par…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/2/) - next →: [Dances of the world and dancing at par…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/)