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title: Meanwhile Ollie hid Lily's pencil case three days running, until Lil… — Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile Ollie hid Lily's pencil case three days running, until Lily said: «Just say hello instead, it's easier.» Ollie went as red as a tomato. Who acts: Ollie, Lily, case. A sentence of the lesson «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 12

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Meanwhile Ollie hid Lily's pencil case three days running, until Lily said: «Just say hello instead, it's easier.» Ollie went as red as a tomato.

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**Who acts:** Ollie, Lily, case · **What happens:** hide, run, say, be, go · **To what, where:** pencil case · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» 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 (Ollie, Lily, case), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.lesson:12
# text = Meanwhile Ollie hid Lily's pencil case three days running, until Lily said: «Just say hello instead, it's easier.» Ollie went as red as a tomato.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
17	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	18	obj	_	_
20	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	parataxis	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	tomato	tomato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | Ollie | Lily's pencil case |  |  | day | meanwhile *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Patient |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | Ollie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lily |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | case |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | past | Ollie |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.lesson:12`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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