--- title: A girl in London was stared at and laughed at for her birthmark ever… — Compliments, respecting differences and disabili… · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in London was stared at and laughed at for her birthmark every day; she started to hide from other children and dreaded school. Who acts: girl. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.lesson:22 # text = A girl in London was stared at and laughed at for her birthmark every day; she started to hide from other children and dreaded school. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.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): R3-conj-first ×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 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 stared stare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 6 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 birthmark birthmark NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 dreaded dread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **stare** | past · passive | | a girl in London | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **laugh** | past | | | | girl's birthmark | day | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **start** | past | girl | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **hide** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | | | | | from other children | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from child=Beneficiary | | 5 | **dread** | past | girl *not said here* | school | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer school=Stimulus | 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:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.lesson:22`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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