--- title: The girls were busy with a skipping game and hadn't even seen. — Showing off · tree and pragmatics description: The girls were busy with a skipping game and hadn't even seen. Who acts: girls. 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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Showing off, sentence 4 The girls were busy with a skipping game and hadn't even seen. **Who acts:** girls · **What happens:** be, not see 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 (girls), 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:4 # text = The girls were busy with a skipping game and hadn't even seen. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 skipping skipping NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 8 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 even even ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the girls | | | | | with a skipping game; busy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | the girls *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`. **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): 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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/3/) - next →: [Showing off, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/)