--- title: When two children fight, the truth about who started it usually come… — When someone else takes your punishment · tree and pragmatics description: When two children fight, the truth about who started it usually comes out, often from someone who saw. Who acts: two children, truth. 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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 (two children, truth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment.lesson:17 # text = When two children fight, the truth about who started it usually comes out, often from someone who saw. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment.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): no change 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 8 about about SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 usually usually ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obl _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | present | two children | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **start** | past | the truth | truth | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 3 | **come out** | present | the truth | | | someone | | usually *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **see** | past | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment.lesson:17`. **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): no change. **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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