--- title: Lily tells the dinner lady the big boys keep taking the Year 3s' cri… — Speaking up is bravery too · tree and pragmatics description: Lily tells the dinner lady the big boys keep taking the Year 3s' crisps, and Sam drops a note in the class worry box: «Someone is getting hit in the boys' toilets.» Who acts: Lily, big boys, Sam. 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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 (Lily, big boys, Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:7 # text = Lily tells the dinner lady the big boys keep taking the Year 3s' crisps, and Sam drops a note in the class worry box: «Someone is getting hit in the boys' toilets.» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.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 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl:relcl 10 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 3s 3 NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 ' 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 crisps crisp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 29 Someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 getting get AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 hit hit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 parataxis _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 ' 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 toilets toilet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 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* | present | Lily | | the dinner lady | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **keep** | present | the big boys | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | gerund | the big boys *not said here* | the Year 3s's crisps | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Theme | | 4 | **drop** | present | Sam | a note | | the worry box | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hit** *in a quote* | present · progressive · passive | | Someone | | the boys's toilets | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in toilet=Destination | 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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:7`. **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: [Speaking up is bravery too, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/6/) - next →: [Speaking up is bravery too, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/)