--- title: When a boy kept pinching Lily's arm on the bus, she said clearly, «S… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: When a boy kept pinching Lily's arm on the bus, she said clearly, «Stop pinching me,» so the whole bus heard. Who acts: boy, Lily, whole bus. 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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, Lily, whole bus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:21 # text = When a boy kept pinching Lily's arm on the bus, she said clearly, «Stop pinching me,» so the whole bus heard. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 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|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 5 pinching pinch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 19 pinching pinch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:mark 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 heard heard VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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 | **keep** | past | a boy | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pinch** | gerund | a boy *not said here* | Lily's arm | | | | on the bus | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent arm=Experiencer on bus=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lily | | | | | clearly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **pinch** *in a quote* | gerund | | Lily | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 6 | **heard** | past | the whole bus | | | | | | tree rules | 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:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:21`. **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): R7-rel-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: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/19/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)