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title: Lily just looked unimpressed, and Mr Hughes, right behind him, heard… — Showing off · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily just looked unimpressed, and Mr Hughes, right behind him, heard every word. Who acts: Lily, Mr Hughes. 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 11

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Lily just looked unimpressed, and Mr Hughes, right behind him, heard every word.

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**Who acts:** Lily, Mr Hughes · **What happens:** look, hear · **To what, where:** word

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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 (Lily, Mr Hughes), 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:11
# text = Lily just looked unimpressed, and Mr Hughes, right behind him, heard every word.
# 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	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unimpressed	unimpressed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Hughes	Hughes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	right	right	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **look** | past | Lily |  |  |  |  | unimpressed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Mr Hughes | every word |  |  |  | behind Ollie | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=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:11`.

**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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