--- title: At the same time Tom's gran asked him why he kept pulling the girl's… — Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily · tree and pragmatics description: At the same time Tom's gran asked him why he kept pulling the girl's hair. Who acts: gran. 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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 6 At the same time Tom's gran asked him why he kept pulling the girl's hair. **Who acts:** gran · **What happens:** ask, keep, pull · **To what, where:** him, hair 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 (gran), 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:6 # text = At the same time Tom's gran asked him why he kept pulling the girl's hair. # 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 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 13 pulling pull VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Tom's gran | | him *= he* | | time | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 2 | **keep** | past | gran | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pull** | gerund | gran *not said here* | the girl's hair | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | 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:6`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/4/) - next →: [Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/)