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title: The next morning, when Tom tugged her ponytail in the line, she turn… — How to say stop · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning, when Tom tugged her ponytail in the line, she turned round and said it exactly like in the mirror. Who acts: Tom. A sentence of the lesson «How to say stop» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How to say stop, sentence 4

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The next morning, when Tom tugged her ponytail in the line, she turned round and said it exactly like in the mirror.

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**Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** tug, turn round, say · **To what, where:** ponytail, line · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How to say stop» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:388-how-to-say-stop.lesson:4
# text = The next morning, when Tom tugged her ponytail in the line, she turned round and said it exactly like in the mirror.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 388-how-to-say-stop.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tugged	tug	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ponytail	ponytail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	round	round	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tug** | past | Tom | Tom's ponytail |  | the line |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ponytail=Patient |
| 2 | **turn round** | past | Tom |  |  |  | morning | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tom *not said here* | ponytail |  |  |  | like the mirror | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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.

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**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:388-how-to-say-stop.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): 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/).

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