--- title: Swearing to look grown-up rarely impresses anyone and can get you in… — Showing off · tree and pragmatics description: Swearing to look grown-up rarely impresses anyone and can get you into trouble. Who acts: Swearing. 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/29/) [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/) / 29 # Showing off, sentence 29 Swearing to look grown-up rarely impresses anyone and can get you into trouble. **Who acts:** Swearing · **What happens:** swear, look, grow up, impress, get · **To what, where:** anyone, you, trouble 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 (Swearing), 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:29 # text = Swearing to look grown-up rarely impresses anyone and can get you into trouble. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Swearing swear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 acl _ _ 4 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 xcomp _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=4:compound 7 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 impresses impress VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swear** | gerund | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **impress** | present | Swearing | anyone | | | | rarely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer | | 5 | **get** | can | Swearing *not said here* | you | | trouble | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | 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:29`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-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, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/28/) - next →: [Showing off, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/31/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/)