--- title: A boy in Manchester did not notice his friend's clenched jaw and qui… — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Manchester did not notice his friend's clenched jaw and quiet voice and kept teasing him; the friend finally shoved him, he fell, and they did not speak for weeks. Who acts: boy, friend, jaw. 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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, friend, jaw), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:5 # text = A boy in Manchester did not notice his friend's clenched jaw and quiet voice and kept teasing him; the friend finally shoved him, he fell, and they did not speak for weeks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 014-faces-and-voices.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 clenched clench VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 teasing tease VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 finally finally ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 shoved shove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 37 . . 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 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | a boy in Manchester | boy's friend's clenched jaw and quiet voice | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer jaw=Stimulus | | 2 | **clench** | participle | | | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | past | a boy in Manchester *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tease** | gerund | a boy in Manchester *not said here* | boy | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 5 | **shove** | past | the friend | boy | | | | finally *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | past | friend | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | past · do-support | jaw | | | | week | | vn talk-37.5 «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:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:5`. **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): R6-punct-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: [Reading faces and voices, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/3/) - next →: [Reading faces and voices, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/)