--- title: Telling a teacher when someone keeps hurting you is right, not telli… — Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily · tree and pragmatics description: Telling a teacher when someone keeps hurting you is right, not telling tales. Who acts: someone, Telling. 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/23/) [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/) / 23 # Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 23 Telling a teacher when someone keeps hurting you is right, not telling tales. **Who acts:** someone, Telling · **What happens:** tell, keep, hurt, be, not tell · **To what, where:** teacher, you, tales · **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 (someone, Telling), 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:23 # text = Telling a teacher when someone keeps hurting you is right, not telling tales. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj 6 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:aux 7 hurting hurt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl 14 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 2 | **keep** | present | someone | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hurt** | gerund | someone *not said here* | you | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | Telling | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | tales | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | 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:23`. **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 ×3, 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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