--- title: Ivy kept saying she'd «tell Mum» things her big brother hadn't done… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics description: Ivy kept saying she'd «tell Mum» things her big brother hadn't done unless he gave her his sweets, and mostly he gave in. Who acts: Ivy, big brother, 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 (Ivy, big brother, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:12 # text = Ivy kept saying she'd «tell Mum» things her big brother hadn't done unless he gave her his sweets, and mostly he gave in. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ivy Ivy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 7 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 acl:relcl _ _ 17 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 in in ADV RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **keep** | past | Ivy | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Ivy *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | things | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | | 4 | **mum** *in a quote* | would | Ivy | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **do** | past · perfect | Mum's big brother | things *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 6 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | brother | brother's sweets | Ivy | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient sweet=Theme | | 7 | **give in** | past | brother | | | | | mostly *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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