--- title: A girl in Edinburgh told a new boy his lunch "stinks"; others joined… — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Edinburgh told a new boy his lunch "stinks"; others joined in, he began skipping lunch, and he lost weight before a teacher noticed. Who acts: girl, lunch, others, 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 (girl, lunch, others, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:23 # text = A girl in Edinburgh told a new boy his lunch "stinks"; others joined in, he began skipping lunch, and he lost weight before a teacher noticed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Edinburgh Edinburgh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 iobj _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 stinks stink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 in in ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 skipping skip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 before before SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl 31 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 32 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a girl in Edinburgh | | a new boy | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **stink** *in a quote* | present | boy's lunch | | | | | | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **join in** | past | others | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **begin** | past | boy | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **skip** | gerund | boy *not said here* | lunch | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Agent | | 6 | **lose** | past | boy | weight | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Eventuality | | 7 | **notice** | past | a teacher | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:23`. **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 ×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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