--- title: Tom stared at his shoes and admitted he didn't know how to talk to h… — Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily · tree and pragmatics description: Tom stared at his shoes and admitted he didn't know how to talk to her. Who acts: Tom, 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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 7 Tom stared at his shoes and admitted he didn't know how to talk to her. **Who acts:** Tom, gran · **What happens:** stare, admit, not know, talk · **To what, where:** Tom · **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 (Tom, 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:7 # text = Tom stared at his shoes and admitted he didn't know how to talk to her. # 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 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stared stare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 admitted admit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 12 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stare** | past | Tom | | | | | at gran's shoes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=Theme | | 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | past | Tom *not said here* | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | gran | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **talk** | to-infinitive | | | Tom | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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:7`. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/6/) - next →: [Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/)