--- title: A boy in Bristol is cornered by an older child who demands his money… — Prices, change, borrowing and lending · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Bristol is cornered by an older child who demands his money; he hands it over because he feels unsafe, then tells a teacher straight away, because this is bullying or theft and adults must stop it. Who acts: older child, money, this, adults. 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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 child, money, this, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing.lesson:4 # text = A boy in Bristol is cornered by an older child who demands his money; he hands it over because he feels unsafe, then tells a teacher straight away, because this is bullying or theft and adults must stop it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 262-prices-change-and-borrowing.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): R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Bristol Bristol 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 cornered corner 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 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 demands demand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 hands hand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 over over ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 23 unsafe unsafe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 26 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 straight straight ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:aux 35 bullying bullying NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 theft theft NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 40 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advcl 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 . . 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 | **corner** | present · passive | a older child | a boy in Bristol | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | present | a older child | boy's money | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme money=Precondition | | 3 | **hand over** | present | money | amount | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **feel** | present | money | | | | | unsafe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | money *not said here* | | a teacher | | then | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 6 | **is a** | present | this | bullying or theft | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **stop** | must | adults | amount | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=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:262-prices-change-and-borrowing.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): R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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: [Prices, change, borrowing and lending, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/3/) - next →: [Prices, change, borrowing and lending, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/)