--- title: Boasting about having more than others makes them feel small and pus… — Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a… · tree and pragmatics description: Boasting about having more than others makes them feel small and pushes friends away; sharing the fun brings friends closer. Who acts: Boasting, others, sharing. A sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Interrupting, boasting, your own story…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/) / 10 # Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity, sentence 10 Boasting about having more than others makes them feel small and pushes friends away; sharing the fun brings friends closer. **Who acts:** Boasting, others, sharing · **What happens:** boast, have, make, feel, push away, share · **To what, where:** more, others, friends, fun This is a sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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 (Boasting, others, sharing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.lesson:10 # text = Boasting about having more than others makes them feel small and pushes friends away; sharing the fun brings friends closer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Boasting boast VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 about about SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 3 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 5 than than ADP IN _ 4 fixed _ _ 6 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 sharing share VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:csubj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 20 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 closer close ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | gerund | | more | | | | others *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | Boasting | others *= other* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* | | | | | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **push away** | present | others *= other* *not said here* | friends | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | | 6 | **share** | gerund | | the fun | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **bring** | present | sharing | | friends | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument friend=Destination | 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:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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