--- title: A girl in Denver is told by an older boy to keep quiet about him tak… — Speaking up, saying no and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Denver is told by an older boy to keep quiet about him taking her lunch; she tells her teacher anyway, and the teacher makes it stop. Who acts: older boy, girl, boy, 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 (older boy, girl, boy, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:4 # text = A girl in Denver is told by an older boy to keep quiet about him taking her lunch; she tells her teacher anyway, and the teacher makes it stop. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.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 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Denver Denver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:agent _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 13 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 about about SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | a older boy | a girl in Denver | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a girl in Denver *not said here* | | | | | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | gerund | boy | girl's lunch | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | girl | | girl's teacher | | | anyway *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 5 | **make** | present | the teacher | lunch | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stop** | infinitive | lunch *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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:4`. **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. 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