--- title: A boy in Ireland squeezed new classmates' hands as hard as he could… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ireland squeezed new classmates' hands as hard as he could to look strong; one girl's hand hurt and she told the teacher, who asked him to stop. Who acts: boy, hand, girl, teacher. 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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, hand, girl, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.lesson:17 # text = A boy in Ireland squeezed new classmates' hands as hard as he could to look strong; one girl's hand hurt and she told the teacher, who asked him to stop. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 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 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 squeezed squeeze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 classmates classmate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound 8 ' 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 10 as as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:mark 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 14 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 17 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 iobj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 35 . . 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 | **squeeze** | past | a boy in Ireland | new classmates's hands | | | | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 2 | **look** | could | a boy in Ireland *not said here* | | | | | strong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **hurt** | past | one girl's hand | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | girl | | the teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the teacher | | teacher | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the teacher *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.lesson:17`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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