--- title: Jake pretended to start a fight with Sam to look tough in front of t… — Showing off · tree and pragmatics description: Jake pretended to start a fight with Sam to look tough in front of the Year Sixes. Who acts: Jake. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/12/) [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/) / [Showing off](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/) / 12 # Showing off, sentence 12 Jake pretended to start a fight with Sam to look tough in front of the Year Sixes. **Who acts:** Jake · **What happens:** pretend, start, look · **To what, where:** fight 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 (Jake), 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:12 # text = Jake pretended to start a fight with Sam to look tough in front of the Year Sixes. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pretended pretend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 11 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 Sixes six PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | past | Jake | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **start** | to-infinitive | Jake *not said here* | a fight | | | | with Sam | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality with sam=Subeventuality | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | Jake *not said here* | | | | | in front of the Year Sixes; tough *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=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:390-showing-off.lesson:12`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Showing off, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/11/) - next →: [Showing off, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/)