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title: Older children whom others respect can often calm younger ones with… — Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Older children whom others respect can often calm younger ones with words alone. Who acts: others, Older children. A sentence of the lesson «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 28

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Older children whom others respect can often calm younger ones with words alone.

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**Who acts:** others, Older children · **What happens:** respect, calm · **To what, where:** Older children, younger ones

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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 (others, Older children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:393-bystanders.lesson:28
# text = Older children whom others respect can often calm younger ones with words alone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 393-bystanders.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): no change
1	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
4	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	respect	respect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	calm	calm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respect** | present | others | Older children |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 2 | **calm** | can | Older children | younger ones |  |  |  | with words; alone, often *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:393-bystanders.lesson:28`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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