--- title: Some children who like someone show it clumsily, by teasing, tugging… — Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily · tree and pragmatics description: Some children who like someone show it clumsily, by teasing, tugging or hiding their things. Who acts: children. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/) / 19 # Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 19 Some children who like someone show it clumsily, by teasing, tugging or hiding their things. **Who acts:** children · **What happens:** like, show, tease, tug, hide · **To what, where:** someone, crush, things 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 (children), 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:19 # text = Some children who like someone show it clumsily, by teasing, tugging or hiding their things. # 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): no change 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 clumsily clumsily ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 by by SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 teasing tease VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 tugging tug VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 conj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 hiding hide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 conj _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **like** | present | some children | someone | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme | | 2 | **show** | present | some children | crush | | | | clumsily *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 3 | **tease** | gerund | some children *not said here* | | | | | | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tug** | gerund | some children *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **hide** | gerund | some children *not said here* | children's things | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | 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:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.lesson:19`. **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. 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