--- title: A girl told a classmate she couldn't be the princess because of her… — Leaving someone out · tree and pragmatics description: A girl told a classmate she couldn't be the princess because of her skin colour — something she had heard somewhere and copied. Who acts: girl. A sentence of the lesson «Leaving someone out» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/11/) [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/) / [Leaving someone out](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/) / 11 # Leaving someone out, sentence 11 A girl told a classmate she couldn't be the princess because of her skin colour — something she had heard somewhere and copied. **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** tell, not be, hear, copy · **To what, where:** classmate, princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Leaving someone out» 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 (girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:347-leaving-someone-out.lesson:11 # text = A girl told a classmate she couldn't be the princess because of her skin colour — something she had heard somewhere and copied. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 347-leaving-someone-out.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 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 iobj _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 7 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 acl:relcl _ _ 12 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 16 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 17 — - PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 appos _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 21 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 copied copy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a girl | | a classmate | | | because girl's skin colour | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent classmate=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **is a** | could | girl | the princess | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | girl | | | | | somewhere *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **copy** | participle | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:347-leaving-someone-out.lesson:11`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Leaving someone out, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/10/) - next →: [Leaving someone out, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/)