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title: People usually show off because they want to be liked, noticed or th… — Showing off · tree and pragmatics
description: People usually show off because they want to be liked, noticed or thought tough. 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.
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# Showing off, sentence 25

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People usually show off because they want to be liked, noticed or thought tough.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** show off, want, like, notice, think

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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 (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:25
# text = People usually show off because they want to be liked, noticed or thought tough.
# 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): no change
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
15	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show off** | present | People |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **want** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **like** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» |
| 4 | **notice** | participle | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tough *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:25`.

**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): no change. **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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