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title: Liking a quiet hobby like knitting, reading or drawing does not make… — Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels · tree and pragmatics
description: Liking a quiet hobby like knitting, reading or drawing does not make anyone weird or weak. Who acts: Liking. 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 22

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Liking a quiet hobby like knitting, reading or drawing does not make anyone weird or weak.

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**Who acts:** Liking · **What happens:** like, not make · **To what, where:** quiet hobby, anyone

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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 (Liking), 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:22
# text = Liking a quiet hobby like knitting, reading or drawing does not make anyone weird or weak.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Liking	like	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hobby	hobby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	knitting	knitting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obj	_	_
15	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | gerund |  | a quiet hobby |  |  |  | like knitting and reading or drawing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hobby=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Liking | anyone |  |  |  | weird *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset anyone=Product |

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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:22`.

**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, 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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