--- title: And Noah's little sister said «Noah hit me!» every day when he hadn'… — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics description: And Noah's little sister said «Noah hit me!» every day when he hadn't — so the one day he really pushed her, Mum didn't believe her, until Noah admitted the push himself. Who acts: little sister, Noah, Mum. 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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 (little sister, Noah, Mum), 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:29 # text = And Noah's little sister said «Noah hit me!» every day when he hadn't — so the one day he really pushed her, Mum didn't believe her, until Noah admitted the push himself. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 19 advmod _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 19 — — VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl:relcl _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 really really ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 parataxis _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 until until SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 admitted admit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:conj 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 37 obl:unmarked _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Noah's little sister | | | | day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hit** *in a quote* | past | Noah | Noah's little sister *= sister* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme | | 3 | **—** | past · perfect | Noah | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **push** | past | Noah | Mum | | | day | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 5 | **not** **believe** | past · do-support | Mum | older *= old* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 6 | **admit** *speech: other* | past | Noah | the push | | | | Noah *obl:unmarked* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent push=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:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:29`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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