--- title: So the trick is to like people as they are, so they don't need to sh… — Showing off · tree and pragmatics description: So the trick is to like people as they are, so they don't need to show off, and to cheer kindness, not danger. Who acts: people. 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/24/) [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/) / 24 # Showing off, sentence 24 So the trick is to like people as they are, so they don't need to show off, and to cheer kindness, not danger. **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** be, like, not need, show off, cheer · **To what, where:** trick, people, kindness 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 (people), 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:24 # text = So the trick is to like people as they are, so they don't need to show off, and to cheer kindness, not danger. # 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 ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 off off ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 cheer cheer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 24 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the trick | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **like** | to-infinitive | | people | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot people=Theme | | 3 | **does** | present | people | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | people | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **show off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **cheer** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | kindness and danger | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus kindness=Experiencer | 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:24`. **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 ×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: [Showing off, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/23/) - next →: [Showing off, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/)