--- title: A boy in Leeds hugged his cousin hard every time even though she sai… — Greeting friends and relatives · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds hugged his cousin hard every time even though she said she did not like it; she started avoiding family visits until a grown-up explained he must ask first. Who acts: boy, Leeds, grown up, up. 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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, Leeds, grown up, up), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.lesson:16 # text = A boy in Leeds hugged his cousin hard every time even though she said she did not like it; she started avoiding family visits until a grown-up explained he must ask first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.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 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 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 hugged hug VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 though though SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 avoiding avoid VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 visits visit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 until until SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 30 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 35 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hug** | past | a boy in Leeds | boy's cousin | | | time | hard *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Co-Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Leeds | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | Leeds | cousin | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 4 | **start** | past | Leeds | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **avoid** | gerund | Leeds *not said here* | family visits | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent visit=Location | | 6 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | a grown up | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | must | up | | | | | first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.lesson:16`. **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/). - ← previous: [Greeting friends and relatives, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/122-greeting-friends-and-relatives/15/) - next →: [Greeting friends and relatives, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/122-greeting-friends-and-relatives/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/122-greeting-friends-and-relatives/)