--- title: When a boy kept pulling Lily's ponytail, she walked to the other sid… — Walking away · tree and pragmatics description: When a boy kept pulling Lily's ponytail, she walked to the other side of the playground, and it stopped properly when the teacher on duty noticed and had a word with him. Who acts: boy, teacher, ponytail. 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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 (boy, teacher, ponytail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:371-walking-away.lesson:17 # text = When a boy kept pulling Lily's ponytail, she walked to the other side of the playground, and it stopped properly when the teacher on duty noticed and had a word with him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 371-walking-away.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 pulling pull VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 ponytail ponytail NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 23 properly properly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | a boy | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pull** | gerund | a boy *not said here* | Lily's ponytail | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ponytail=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | past | teacher | | | | | to the other side of the playground *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result | | 4 | **stop** | past | ponytail | | | | | properly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **notice** | past | the teacher on duty | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **have** | past | the teacher on duty *not said here* | a word | | | | with boy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | 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:371-walking-away.lesson:17`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Walking away, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/16/) - next →: [Walking away, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/)