--- title: Tom flicked his ruler at Lily to make his mates laugh; it caught the… — Showing off · tree and pragmatics description: Tom flicked his ruler at Lily to make his mates laugh; it caught the corner of her eye. Who acts: Tom, mates, ruler. 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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Showing off, sentence 8 Tom flicked his ruler at Lily to make his mates laugh; it caught the corner of her eye. **Who acts:** Tom, mates, ruler · **What happens:** flick, make, laugh, catch · **To what, where:** ruler, Lily, mates, corner 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 (Tom, mates, ruler), 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:8 # text = Tom flicked his ruler at Lily to make his mates laugh; it caught the corner of her eye. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 flicked flick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 mates mate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flick** | past | Tom | Tom's ruler | | Lily | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ruler=Theme at lily=Destination | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* | Tom's mates | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** | infinitive | Tom's mates *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **catch** | past | ruler | the corner of Lily's eye | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=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:8`. **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, 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/7/) - next →: [Showing off, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/)