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title: Mrs Okafor saw what was going on and gave a whole lesson called «How… — Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily · tree and pragmatics
description: Mrs Okafor saw what was going on and gave a whole lesson called «How to show you like someone». Who acts: Mrs, you. A sentence of the lesson «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 16

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Mrs Okafor saw what was going on and gave a whole lesson called «How to show you like someone».

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**Who acts:** Mrs, you · **What happens:** see, go on, give, call, show, like · **To what, where:** whole lesson, someone · **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 (Mrs, you), 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:16
# text = Mrs Okafor saw what was going on and gave a whole lesson called «How to show you like someone».
# 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
1	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Okafor	Okafor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **see** | past | Mrs |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go on** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | Mrs *not said here* | a whole lesson |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme |
| 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a whole lesson *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **show** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **like** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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:16`.

**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. **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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