--- title: A boy in Leeds told the teacher his friend had been with him when th… — Covering up, false alarms and playing fair · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds told the teacher his friend had been with him when the friend had really been bullying a younger child; the bullying went on for weeks and both boys ended up in serious trouble. Who acts: boy, friend, bullying, boys. 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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, bullying, boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:18 # text = A boy in Leeds told the teacher his friend had been with him when the friend had really been bullying a younger child; the bullying went on for weeks and both boys ended up in serious trouble. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.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 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 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 iobj _ _ 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 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 been be VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 really really ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 aux _ _ 20 bullying bully VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 bullying bullying NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 28 on on ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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* | past | a boy in Leeds | | the teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **be** | past · perfect | boy's friend | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bully** | past · perfect · progressive | the friend | | a younger child | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | | 4 | **go on** | past | the bullying | | | | week | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **end up** | past | both boys | | | | | in serious trouble *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in trouble=Result | 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:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:18`. **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. **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: [Covering up, false alarms and playing…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/17/) - next →: [Covering up, false alarms and playing…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/)