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title: "Threenager" means a defiant three-year-old acting like a moody teen… — Soft words for hard things: relations and family… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Threenager" means a defiant three-year-old acting like a moody teenager (jokey). Who acts: Threenager, defiant year old. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 19

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"Threenager" means a defiant three-year-old acting like a moody teenager (jokey).

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**Who acts:** Threenager, defiant year old · **What happens:** mean, acting · **To what, where:** defiant year old

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms 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 (Threenager, defiant year old), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:19
# text = "Threenager" means a defiant three-year-old acting like a moody teenager (jokey).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 014-family-and-behaviour.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Threenager	threenager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
6	defiant	defiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	old	old	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
12	acting	acting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	moody	moody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	teenager	teenager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	jokey	jokey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Threenager | a defiant year old |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent old=Topic |
| 2 | **acting** | gerund | a defiant year old *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a moody teenager | tree rules |

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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:euphemisms:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:19`.

**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, 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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