--- title: Lily complained at home, and her mum said: «Oh, it just means he lik… — Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily · tree and pragmatics description: Lily complained at home, and her mum said: «Oh, it just means he likes you.» Lily felt nobody was listening. Who acts: Lily, mum, it, he. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lily, mum, it, he), 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:4 # text = Lily complained at home, and her mum said: «Oh, it just means he likes you.» Lily felt nobody was listening. # 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 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 complained complain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 12 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 16 discourse _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 just just ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 likes like VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advcl 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **complain** *speech: other* | past | Lily | | | home | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lily's mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **like** *in a quote* | present | he | you | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | past | Lily | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **listen** | past · progressive | nobody | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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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