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title: «But I pushed harder,» said the older. — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics
description: «But I pushed harder,» said the older. Who acts: older. A sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 27

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«But I pushed harder,» said the older.

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**Who acts:** older · **What happens:** push, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» 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 (older), 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:27
# text = «But I pushed harder,» said the older.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:discourse
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis
5	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	nsubj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **push** *in a quote* | past | the older *= old* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the older |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:27`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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