--- title: Pulling hair hurts, even when the person doing it thinks it is a game. — Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily · tree and pragmatics description: Pulling hair hurts, even when the person doing it thinks it is a game. Who acts: Pulling, person. 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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 20 Pulling hair hurts, even when the person doing it thinks it is a game. **Who acts:** Pulling, person · **What happens:** pull, hurt, do, think, be · **To what, where:** hair, person, game · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Pulling, person), 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:20 # text = Pulling hair hurts, even when the person doing it thinks it is a game. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Pulling pull VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj 2 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **pull** | gerund | | hair | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | | 2 | **hurt** | present | Pulling | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **do** | gerund | the person *not said here* | person | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the person | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | person | a game | | | | | tree rules | 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:20`. **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. 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