--- title: Crushes are normal, and they often make people act strangely: starin… — Boys who look at Maddie oddly · tree and pragmatics description: Crushes are normal, and they often make people act strangely: staring, blushing, showing off or going quiet. Who acts: Crushes, wheelies, people. A sentence of the lesson «Boys who look at Maddie oddly» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/21/) [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/) / [Boys who look at Maddie oddly](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/) / 21 # Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 21 Crushes are normal, and they often make people act strangely: staring, blushing, showing off or going quiet. **Who acts:** Crushes, wheelies, people · **What happens:** be, make, act, stare, blush, show off · **To what, where:** people This is a sentence of the lesson «Boys who look at Maddie oddly» 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 (Crushes, wheelies, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly.lesson:21 # text = Crushes are normal, and they often make people act strangely: staring, blushing, showing off or going quiet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Crushes crush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 act act VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 strangely strangely ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 blushing blush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advcl 18 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 21 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Crushes | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | wheelies *= wheelie* | people | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **act** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | strangely *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stare** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **blush** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **show off** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **go** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly.lesson:21`. **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, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Boys who look at Maddie oddly, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/20/) - next →: [Boys who look at Maddie oddly, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/)