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title: Some girls sneer «Princess Lily» because her hair is neat and her bo… — Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels · tree and pragmatics
description: Some girls sneer «Princess Lily» because her hair is neat and her books are tidy. Who acts: girls, hair, books. A sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 13

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Some girls sneer «Princess Lily» because her hair is neat and her books are tidy.

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**Who acts:** girls, hair, books · **What happens:** sneer, be · **To what, where:** Princess Lily

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» 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 (girls, hair, books), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:13
# text = Some girls sneer «Princess Lily» because her hair is neat and her books are tidy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sneer	sneer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneer** | present | some girls | Princess Lily |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lily=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Lily's hair |  |  |  |  | neat *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Lily's books |  |  |  |  | tidy *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:13`.

**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): 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/).

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