--- title: Being looked at «oddly» can simply mean someone likes you. — Boys who look at Maddie oddly · tree and pragmatics description: Being looked at «oddly» can simply mean someone likes you. Who acts: someone. 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 every clause. --- [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/22/) [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/) / 22 # Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 22 Being looked at «oddly» can simply mean someone likes you. **Who acts:** someone · **What happens:** look, mean, like · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (someone), 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:22 # text = Being looked at «oddly» can simply mean someone likes you. # 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 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 csubj:pass _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 oddly oddly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 simply simply ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ _ 11 likes like VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | gerund · passive | | | | | | oddly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» | | 2 | **mean** | can | | | | | | simply *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **like** | present | someone | you | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=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:22`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Boys who look at Maddie oddly, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/21/) - next →: [Boys who look at Maddie oddly, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/)