--- title: When nobody was looking, he asked Sam for help with spelling, embarr… — Jake, always in bruises · tree and pragmatics description: When nobody was looking, he asked Sam for help with spelling, embarrassed that a tough boy needed it; after some sessions with Sam at the library, his spellings went from 3 out of 10 to 8. Who acts: nobody, Jake, tough boy, spellings. 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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 (nobody, Jake, tough boy, spellings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:372-jake-always-in-bruises.lesson:14 # text = When nobody was looking, he asked Sam for help with spelling, embarrassed that a tough boy needed it; after some sessions with Sam at the library, his spellings went from 3 out of 10 to 8. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 372-jake-always-in-bruises.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 iobj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 embarrassed embarrass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 sessions session NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 library library NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 spellings spelling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 obl _ _ 36 out out ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nmod _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **look** | past · progressive | nobody | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Jake | | Sam | | | for help with spelling | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sam=Recipient | | 3 | **embarrass** | participle | Jake *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **need** | past | a tough boy | spelling | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 5 | **go** | past | Jake's spellings | | | 3 out 10 | after some sessions with Sam at the library | to 8 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from 3=Initial\_Location to 8=Destination | | 6 | **spell** | | Jake | | | | | | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:372-jake-always-in-bruises.lesson:14`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Jake, always in bruises, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/13/) - next →: [Jake, always in bruises, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/)