--- title: She rolls her eyes and says: «Yes, and princesses can be scientists.… — Lily, the calm «princess» · tree and pragmatics description: She rolls her eyes and says: «Yes, and princesses can be scientists.» That spring her volcano project won the science fair, and the boys who had laughed queued up to see it fizz. Who acts: She, princesses, volcano project, boys. 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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 (She, princesses, volcano project, boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:1 # text = She rolls her eyes and says: «Yes, and princesses can be scientists.» That spring her volcano project won the science fair, and the boys who had laughed queued up to see it fizz. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 386-lily-the-calm-princess.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 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rolls roll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 princesses princess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 18 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 volcano volcano NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 won won VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 fair fair NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 laughed laugh VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 queued queue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 fizz fizz VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roll** | present | She | her eyes | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | She *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | can | princesses | scientists | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **won** | past | her volcano project | the science fair | | | spring | | tree rules | | 5 | **laugh** | past · perfect | the boys | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **queue up** | past | the boys | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | the boys *not said here* | fair | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **fizz** | infinitive | fair *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **project** | | her *= she* | | | | | | nom project «act 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:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:1`. **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: [Respect: how it is earned, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/30/) - next →: [Lily, the calm «princess», 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/)