--- title: «Boys will be boys» is an excuse, not a reason; boys can learn not t… — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics description: «Boys will be boys» is an excuse, not a reason; boys can learn not to fight just like anyone else. Who acts: Boys. 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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 18 «Boys will be boys» is an excuse, not a reason; boys can learn not to fight just like anyone else. **Who acts:** Boys · **What happens:** be, learn, not fight · **To what, where:** boys, excuse 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 (Boys), 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:18 # text = «Boys will be boys» is an excuse, not a reason; boys can learn not to fight just like anyone else. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 excuse excuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 15 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj 24 else else ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | Boys and boys *not said here* | boys | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Boys and boys | a excuse and a reason | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **learn** | can | boys | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **fight** | to-infinitive | boys *not said here* | | | | | like anyone | vn battle-36.4-1 «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:18`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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