--- title: Saying no to a big kid's offer can be done kindly, and suggesting so… — Older siblings and YouTube gameplay · tree and pragmatics description: Saying no to a big kid's offer can be done kindly, and suggesting something else to do together helps. Who acts: suggesting, big kid. 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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 (suggesting, big kid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay.lesson:30 # text = Saying no to a big kid's offer can be done kindly, and suggesting something else to do together helps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:csubj:pass 2 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 1 obj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 12 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 suggesting suggest VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 csubj _ _ 16 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obj _ _ 17 else else ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:xcomp 20 together together ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 22 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | no | a big kid's offer | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to offer=Recipient | | 2 | **do** | can · passive | | | | | | kindly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | gerund | | something | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | | something *not said here* | | | | together *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help** | present | suggesting | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **offer** | | a big kid | | | | | | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=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:423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay.lesson:30`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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