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title: Ollie swore in front of Lily to look grown-up. — Showing off · tree and pragmatics
description: Ollie swore in front of Lily to look grown-up. Who acts: Ollie. A sentence of the lesson «Showing off» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Showing off, sentence 10

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Ollie swore in front of Lily to look grown-up.

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**Who acts:** Ollie · **What happens:** swear, look · **To what, where:** front

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Showing off» 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 (Ollie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:390-showing-off.lesson:10
# text = Ollie swore in front of Lily to look grown-up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 390-showing-off.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past | Ollie |  |  | front of Lily |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | Ollie *not said here* |  |  |  |  | grow *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:390-showing-off.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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