--- title: Josh in Pittsburgh told Mom his brother had called him a bad name, s… — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics description: Josh in Pittsburgh told Mom his brother had called him a bad name, so his brother would lose phone time and Josh would get the TV. Who acts: Josh, brother. 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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 (Josh, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:12 # text = Josh in Pittsburgh told Mom his brother had called him a bad name, so his brother would lose phone time and Josh would get the TV. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.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 ×2 1 Josh Josh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Mom Mom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 iobj _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 20 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 Josh Josh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Josh in Pittsburgh | | Mom | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mom=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **call** | past · perfect | Josh's brother | a bad name | Josh | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme name=Result | | 3 | **lose** | would | Josh's brother | | | | time | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | would | Josh | the TV | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tv=Stimulus | 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:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:12`. **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 ×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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