--- title: Kind make-believe with little ones is mostly fine, as long as it is… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics description: Kind make-believe with little ones is mostly fine, as long as it is never used to scare them or to get something out of them. Who acts: make. 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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 (make), 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:3 # text = Kind make-believe with little ones is mostly fine, as long as it is never used to scare them or to get something out of them. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 make make NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 believe believe NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 scare scare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 25 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 obj _ _ 26 out out ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | make with little ones | | | | | fine, long, mostly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **use** | present · passive | | make | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **scare** | to-infinitive | | them *= they* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | | something | | | | out them *= they* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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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