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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 (bully, curiosity), 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:21 # text = A girl in Leeds was bullied for months and kept quiet because the bully said it would get worse; when she told a teacher, it stopped within a week. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×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 Leeds Leeds 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 bullied bully VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bully bully NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 19 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 iobj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 29 within within ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bully** | past · passive | | a girl in Leeds | | | month | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | | 2 | **keep** | past | | | | | | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bully | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **get** | would | curiosity | | | | | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | bully | | a teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 6 | **stop** | past | curiosity | | | | week | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.lesson:21`. **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): R6-punct-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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