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title: The boys thought she was proud because she was quiet, until she help… — Lily, the calm «princess» · tree and pragmatics
description: The boys thought she was proud because she was quiet, until she helped one of them with fractions and they found out she was simply shy. Who acts: boys, Lily. A sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Lily, the calm «princess», sentence 8

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The boys thought she was proud because she was quiet, until she helped one of them with fractions and they found out she was simply shy.

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**Who acts:** boys, Lily · **What happens:** think, be, help, find out · **To what, where:** one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, Lily), 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:8
# text = The boys thought she was proud because she was quiet, until she helped one of them with fractions and they found out she was simply shy.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fractions	fraction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	ccomp	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Lily |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Lily |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | past | Lily | one of boys |  |  |  | with fractions | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary with fraction=Theme |
| 5 | **find out** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | Lily |  |  |  |  | shy, simply *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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/).

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