--- title: Ella sulked — «it's not fair, I saw it first» — but at bedtime she s… — Taking too much · tree and pragmatics description: Ella sulked — «it's not fair, I saw it first» — but at bedtime she said sorry, and the next time there was cake she let her sister choose first. Who acts: Ella, end, cake, sister. 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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 (Ella, end, cake, sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:6 # text = Ella sulked — «it's not fair, I saw it first» — but at bedtime she said sorry, and the next time there was cake she let her sister choose first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sulked sulk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 — - PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 advmod _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 — - PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 bedtime bedtime NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 21 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 28 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 35 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sulk** | past | Ella | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | end | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past | Ella | end | | | | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ella | | | bedtime | | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **be** | past | cake | the next time *not said here* | | there | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot time=Theme | | 6 | **let** | past | Ella | | | | time | | tree rules | | 7 | **choose** | infinitive | Ella's sister | | | | | first *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:6`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Taking too much, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/5/) - next →: [Taking too much, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/)