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title: A boy in New Zealand felt so jealous of the new baby that he stopped… — Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in New Zealand felt so jealous of the new baby that he stopped eating and talking at school; when he finally told his dad, they started special time together and he felt much better. Who acts: boy, cigarette. A sentence of the lesson «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» of the everyday 
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# Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments, sentence 22

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A boy in New Zealand felt so jealous of the new baby that he stopped eating and talking at school; when he finally told his dad, they started special time together and he felt much better.

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**Who acts:** boy, cigarette · **What happens:** feel, stop, eat, talk, tell, start · **To what, where:** school, dad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, cigarette), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments.lesson:22
# text = A boy in New Zealand felt so jealous of the new baby that he stopped eating and talking at school; when he finally told his dad, they started special time together and he felt much better.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments.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	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	iobj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
31	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	together	together	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
37	much	much	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	xcomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | a boy in New Zealand |  |  |  |  | jealous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stop** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **talk** | gerund | boy *not said here* |  |  | school |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | boy |  | boy's dad |  |  | finally *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient |
| 6 | **start** | past | cigarette |  |  |  | time | together *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **feel** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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.

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