--- title: A boy in Ohio watched a kid being pushed around every day and said n… — Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio watched a kid being pushed around every day and said nothing; one day the kid was hurt badly, and the boy wished he had told a teacher sooner. Who acts: boy. 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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 (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.lesson:17 # text = A boy in Ohio watched a kid being pushed around every day and said nothing; one day the kid was hurt badly, and the boy wished he had told a teacher sooner. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 10 around around ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 23 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 ccomp _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | past | a boy in Ohio | a kid | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme | | 2 | **push around** | gerund · passive | | a kid *not said here* | | | day | around *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP» | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a boy in Ohio *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 4 | **hurt** | past · passive | | the kid | | | day | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **wish** | past | the boy | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | boy | | | | | soon *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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. 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