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title: By Wednesday somebody has drawn a chicken on Sam's pencil case in fe… — Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels · tree and pragmatics
description: By Wednesday somebody has drawn a chicken on Sam's pencil case in felt tip, and when the cold wind makes his eyes water, Jake yells «Sam's crying!» across the whole playground. Who acts: somebody, cold wind, eyes, Jake. A sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» of the everyday co
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# Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 2

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By Wednesday somebody has drawn a chicken on Sam's pencil case in felt tip, and when the cold wind makes his eyes water, Jake yells «Sam's crying!» across the whole playground.

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**Who acts:** somebody, cold wind, eyes, Jake · **What happens:** draw, feel, make, water, yell, cry · **To what, where:** chicken, pencil case, whole playground · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (somebody, cold wind, eyes, Jake), 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:2
# text = By Wednesday somebody has drawn a chicken on Sam's pencil case in felt tip, and when the cold wind makes his eyes water, Jake yells «Sam's crying!» across the whole playground.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	yells	yell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
30	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
35	across	across	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **draw** | present · perfect | somebody | a chicken |  | Sam's pencil case | wednesday | in felt tip | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme on case=Destination |
| 2 | **feel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | present | the cold wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **water** |  | wind's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **yell** *speech: express* | present | Jake |  |  | the whole playground |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:2`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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