--- title: Lily's dad went to the school about the ponytail tugging, calmly, wi… — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics description: Lily's dad went to the school about the ponytail tugging, calmly, with dates written down. Who acts: dad, dates. A sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/10/) [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/) / [Adults who help and adults who don't](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/) / 10 # Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 10 Lily's dad went to the school about the ponytail tugging, calmly, with dates written down. **Who acts:** dad, dates · **What happens:** go, tug, write down · **To what, where:** school This is a sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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 (dad, dates), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:10 # text = Lily's dad went to the school about the ponytail tugging, calmly, with dates written down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.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 ×2 1 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ponytail ponytail NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 tugging tug VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 calmly calmly ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 with with SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 dates date NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ _ 18 down down ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Lily's dad | | | the school | | calmly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **tug** | gerund | Lily's dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **write down** | participle | dates | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:10`. **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 ×2. **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: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/9/) - next →: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/)