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title: Teasing or tugging someone to get their attention usually makes them… — What everyone learned about fights · tree and pragmatics
description: Teasing or tugging someone to get their attention usually makes them like you less, not more. Who acts: Teasing, cadets. A sentence of the lesson «What everyone learned about fights» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What everyone learned about fights, sentence 23

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Teasing or tugging someone to get their attention usually makes them like you less, not more.

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**Who acts:** Teasing, cadets · **What happens:** tease, tug, get, make, attend · **To what, where:** someone, attention, cadets

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What everyone learned about fights» 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 (Teasing, cadets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:395-what-everyone-learned.lesson:23
# text = Teasing or tugging someone to get their attention usually makes them like you less, not more.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 395-what-everyone-learned.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	Teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	tugging	tug	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
14	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tug** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent someone=Patient |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | cadets's attention |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | present | Teasing | cadets *= cadet* |  |  |  | like you; less, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 5 | **attend** |  | cadets *= cadet* |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:395-what-everyone-learned.lesson:23`.

**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.

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