--- title: And Lily's ponytail was left alone by everyone, because the boys had… — What everyone learned about fights · tree and pragmatics description: And Lily's ponytail was left alone by everyone, because the boys had worked out that tugging it made her think less of them, not more. Who acts: everyone, boys, tugging, Lily. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, boys, tugging, Lily), 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:7 # text = And Lily's ponytail was left alone by everyone, because the boys had worked out that tugging it made her think less of them, 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 ponytail ponytail NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 6 obl:agent _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 worked work VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 tugging tug VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 21 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past · passive | everyone | Lily's ponytail | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **work out** | past · perfect | the boys | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tug** | gerund | | ponytail | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **make** | past | tugging | Lily | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | Lily *not said here* | less | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot less=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:395-what-everyone-learned.lesson:7`. **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: [What everyone learned about fights, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/395-what-everyone-learned/6/) - next →: [What everyone learned about fights, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/395-what-everyone-learned/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/395-what-everyone-learned/)